PHUKET: A mahout was found with his throat cut by his own long knife at an elephant camp near Nai Thon Beach late yesterday afternoon (June 16). The relative who lived with the mahout believes that the man committed suicide. Capt Sunan Petnu of the Sakoo Police was called to the elephant camp at around […]
A heavy drinker suffered sobering injuries when he got on the nerves of an 18-year-old female elephant yesterday afternoon. Jenny, from the Pattaya Elephant Village, is described as generally placid and playful, except when it comes to one particular person – 46-year-old Khun Somjit – whose drunken escapades have often caused disruption at the East […]
A 56-year-old Thai wife of a foreigner was fatally gored by a 2-year-old elephant on Maerampung beach. She was buying sugar cane to feed the elephant when it attacked her. The mahout said the hot weather had crazed the normally docile beast. The mahout and the elephant’s owner will be prosecuted by police. Read more: […]
A British tourist was seriously injured and a Swiss woman was killed when two male elephants went on the rampage in Thailand. The incident at Khao Sok national park, happened after two tour groups, carrying tourists on an elephant ecotour came head to head on a jungle path. Mahouts were unable to control the two […]
