An elephant ripped its handler in half with its tusks in southern Thailand final week after being made to hold wooden within the sizzling climate, in accordance with a report.
The physique of 32-year-old Supachai Wongfaed was present in a pool of blood after police responded to a rubber plantation within the Phang Nga province, Thailand information outlet the Thaiger reported.
Police mentioned that a male 20-year-old elephant named Pom Pam stabbed the person with its tusks a number of occasions, tearing his physique in half.
A preliminary investigation decided that Supachai introduced the elephant to haul wooden on the plantation that morning, the outlet reported, citing police.
Police mentioned the sizzling climate could have made the animal “go loopy” and assault the person.
Livestock officers needed to sedate the elephant with a dart from over 1,600 toes away in order that Supachai’s physique may very well be recovered, in accordance with the report.
One other incident occurred final month within the Nakhon Sri Thammarat province. Police suspect that the elephant, in that case, was pressured from work, stabbed its handler to dying and stood over his corpse for hours, the outlet reported.
Duncan McNair, CEO of the charity Save The Asian Elephants, advised Newsweek that Asian elephants undergo psychologically and bodily when damaged and compelled to work in excessive actions like logging.
“[It] is yet one more stark reminder that Asian elephants are and all the time stay wild animals that may assault and kill when they're abused or overly pressured by people,” McNair mentioned.
Regardless of the follow of utilizing Asian elephants to hold logs being banned in Thailand in 1989, it nonetheless happens in some elements of the nation, in accordance with the outlet.
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