INN reported that an elderly Prachinburi woman survived an attack by a wild elephant from the Khao Ang Rue Nai wildlife sanctuary yesterday.

The sanctuary straddles several eastern provinces in Thailand and has been in the news many times recently as elephants leave the confines of the sanctuary looking for food.

On this occasion a lady called Winit Oan-orn, 71, was handling a rubber hose used for pumping water.

When she looked up she was confronted by an elephant with tusks that used its rear legs to stomp on her as she tried to flee.

A motorist on his way to work came across the incident and sounding his horn and revving his engine he managed to scare the elephant off.

He contacted the lady's relatives who took her to Sri Maha Pho Hospital. She was later transferred to Kasemrat Hospital.

Doctors will keep her under observation for one or two days as she recovers from leg and back injuries sustained in the attack.

 

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Lucky escape for the lady, and her injuries don't look that bad.

While on holiday in Kenya and walking through the bush a man comes across an elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seems distressed so the man approaches very carefully. He gets down on one knee and inspects the bottom of the elephant's foot only to find a large thorn deeply embedded. As carefully and as gently as he can he removes the thorn and the elephant gingerly puts its foot down. The elephant turns to face the man and with a rather stern look on its face, stares at him. For a good ten minutes the man stands frozen - thinking of nothing else but being trampled.

Eventually the elephant turns and walks away.

 

For years after, the man often remembers and ponders the events of that day. Years later the man is walking through the zoo with his son. As they approach the elephant enclosure, one of the elephants turns and walks over to where they are standing at the rail. It stares at him and the man can't help wondering if this is the same elephant. The man climbs tentatively over the railing and makes his way into the enclosure. He walks right up to the elephant and stares back in wonder. Suddenly the elephant wraps its trunk around one of the man's legs and swings him wildly back and forth along the railing, instantly killing him.

 

Probably not the same elephant.