The body of a teenage boy was found lying on the road near Kaeng Krachan National Park in Hua Hin district of the southern province Prachuap Khiri Khan in the early hours of Saturday morning. Local residents reported seeing a wild elephant wandering around the community foraging for food. They say the teenage boy might have been riding his motorbike alone in the dark when the elephant attacked him.
Residents found the body and notified officers from the Nong Plub Police Station, who responded to the incident with a rescue team. They identified the body of 17 year old Nakarin “Fluke” Toomthong and reported wounds on the forehead, a broken neck and broken teeth. About 5 metres away, they spotted the boy’s motorbike was spotted with scratches on the frame. The footprints of an elephant were found all over the road at the scene of the attack.
The residents who first found the…
