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An elephant ripped its handler in half with its tusks in southern Thailand final week after being made to hold wooden within the scorching climate, in keeping 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.
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A male Asian elephant, just like the one picutred above, reportedly attacked its handler in southern Thailand.
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Police mentioned the scorching 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 ft away in order that Supachai’s physique might be recovered, in keeping with the report.
One other incident occurred final month within the Nakhon Sri Thammarat province. Police suspect that the elephant, in that case, was burdened 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, informed Newsweek that Asian elephants endure psychologically and bodily when damaged and compelled to work in excessive actions like logging.
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“[It] is 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 burdened by people,” McNair mentioned.
Regardless of the apply of utilizing Asian elephants to hold logs being banned in Thailand in 1989, it nonetheless happens in some components of the nation, in keeping with the outlet.
