Rescue workers retrieve the body of the woman latex tapper killed by a wild elephant at a rubber plantation in Bo Thong district, Chon Buri, on Thursday morning.(Photo: Sawang rescue team 363 via @radiochon Facebook).
CHON BURI: A woman was killed by a wild elephant as she and her husband were tapping rubber trees at a plantation in Bo Thong district early on Thursday morning.
Turian Suwanchao, 54, and her husbanb Tian Thongyaem, 56, entered the plantation in tambon That Thong to collect latex about 3am.
Around 5.50am, a panicked Mr Thian fled from the plantation and told the owner, Somjit Haphol, that his wife had been stomped by a wild elephant.
Mr Somjit said he and other villagers later saw a big elephant crossing a road leading from the plantation. They went into the trees and found Ms Turian’s dead…
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