webfact Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Villager killed by wild elephants in Chachoengsao By The Nation CHACHOENGSAO: -- A villager collecting food in a forest reserve near a wildlife sanctuary in Chachoengsao province was killed by wild elephants on Monday afternoon, police said. The villager was identified as Chalee Sophakul, 45, who was a resident of Ban Nayao village in Tambon Tha Kradan of Sanam Chaikhet district. It is thought he was killed by a herd of wild elephants. His friend told police that they were looking for editable plants in the forest reserve near Khao Ang Rua wildlife sanctuary near their village at 4.30pm when they spotted the wild elephants. The elephants charged so they ran for their lives, the friend said. But the friend said he noticed Chalee had not followed him, so he alerted authorities. A group of 30 villagers and rescuers returned to the spot at about 9pm to retrieve Chalee’s body. Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30309748 -- © Copyright The Nation 2017-03-21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcatcher Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Depressing story. Now, about those editable plants......................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobsworth Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 good to learn that there are any wild elephants left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardinalblue Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Collecting herbs from the forest land they burned illegally previously? More to this story than just pissing off an elephant.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaywalker Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 1 hour ago, cardinalblue said: Collecting herbs from the forest land they burned illegally previously? More to this story than just pissing off an elephant.... Yes, he was maybe/probably an ivory poacher that lost that hand of poker. We'll never know. All I do know is DON'T F with elephants! I won't even get within 50 yards of the ones that are supposedly tame. Same goes for lions, tigers and bears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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