Elephant injured after being ‘flung from truck which overturned’

The elephant might be heard trumpeting out in ache due to his ache (Image: The Nation Thailand)

An elephant has been injured and brought to hospital after being thrown from a truck when it overturned.

The jumbo elephant, referred to as Plai Pu Kham, fell on the street when the truck toppled over at 9am native time in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on September 5.

After the incident, Plai Pu Kham was unable to stand up off the bottom and might be heard trumpeting out as a result of he was in a lot ache.

Wichian Thongkhanasub, 33, Plai Pu Kham’s proprietor stated he was slicing corners and had rented out a six-wheeler as a substitute of a sturdier however costlier ten-wheeler.

Wichian needed to name the Thai Elephant Alliance for assist and a group of vets later arrived to search out the elephant on the grass and trumpeting out in ache.

The elephant suffered a sprain on his proper hind leg, together with a number of abrasions and bruises throughout his physique.

He'll now have an x-ray to examine for inner accidents.

The elephant was shortly rushed to hospital (Image: The Nation Thailand)

Rescuers have been referred to as to the scene after the truck overturned (Image: The Nation Thailand)

Demand to see elephants has risen amongst vacationers because the finish of the pandemic, so extra of the wild animals are being transported between cities.

Teeraphat Tranprakan, Thai elephant alliance affiliation director stated: ‘Elephant companies are actually bringing their elephants again into enterprise and transporting them again to town, the place vacationers are, because of the momentum of tourism.’

An estimated 2,000 Asian elephants dwell within the wild in Thailand and may usually be discovered wandering round wild woodland.

Elephants can come into battle if they arrive throughout people out within the wild.

Various elephants are additionally held in captivity and work within the vacationer business or get employed out for non secular festivals and weddings, whereas a small quantity nonetheless work in business logging.

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