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Bull elephant electrocuted

The dead bull elephant, killed by an electric fence around an orchard in Chanthaburi’s Pong Nam Ron district, believed to be Sidor Daeng, who fled from an elephant detention centre in Sa Kaeo province in June 2018. (Photo supplied)

An 18-year-old bull elephant with a history of being wild and unruly was reportedly found dead beside an electric fence around an orchard in Pong Nam Rom district, Chanthaburi province, on Tuesday morning.

Ekachai Saendee, chief of Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, said he received a report about 7am that an elephant known as Sidor Daeng was dead.

The elephant was electrocuted by an electric fence around an orchard at Moo 1 village, on the edge of Khao Soi Dao Tai mountain, in tambon Thap Sai of Pong Nam Ron district.

He said it had still to be confirmed that the dead elephant…

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