An elephant in southern Thailand attacked its handler while hauling rubberwood on a hot day, ripping his body into two. File Photo: Katie Hollamby, Pexels
While hauling rubberwood under the hot weather, an elephant went rogue and killed its handler—also known as mahout—ripping his body into two pieces last week.
Around noon on August 17, police officers in southern Thailand’s Phang Nga province were alerted to the death of 32-year-old Supachai Wongfaed, a local resident who had been attacked by an elephant he was working with.
When authorities and rescue workers arrived at the scene, they found Supachai’s body in the middle of a rubber plantation, lying in a pool of blood and ripped into two pieces after being stabbed by the elephant’s tusks multiple times.
In order for rescue workers to retrieve Supachai’s body, the 20-year-old male elephant named Pom Pam was shot with a…
