Elephant rips its handler in half after 'going crazy' in the heat as it was made to haul wood
An elephant has ripped its handler in 0.5 once it had been forced to haul wood from a plantation throughout a heatwave in Thailand.
The male elephant, named pommy Pam, injured Supachai Wongfaed, 33, with its tusks many times and ripped his body in half after 'going crazy' within the heat, police said.
The 20-year-old elephant had been shipping rubberwood from a plantation in the hot weather, wherever temperatures reached eighty nine degrees physicist (31C), in southern Thailand' Phang Nga province last week when it turned on its handler.
cops and rescue staff were called to the scene wherever they found Wongfaed' body ripped in 2 during a pool of blood, reports Thaigar.
placental mammal officers then shot pommy Pam with a sedative dart from a variety of around 550 yards so rescue staff might retrieve the handler' body.
Asian elephants are generally wont to carry logs and woods in wooded areas of Thailand, despite a 30-year-old law ban the practice.
Wonfaed' father was Thawon Wongfaed, the previous civil authority of the Khok Charoen subdistrict in central Thailand. His body has been taken to relatives for his funeral.
'It is one more stark reminder that Asian elephants are and continuously stay wild animals which will attack and kill after they are abused or to a fault stressed by humans,' professional dancer McNair, the chief operating officer of the charity Save the Asian Elephants, told Newsweek.
'They suffer deeply, psychologically yet as physically, once broken and compelled into constant severe toil in work and connected activities,' he added.
McNair same his charity believes a minimum of 2,000 folks are killed or battle-scarred by captive elephants 'brutalised in unnatural forced activities'.
Last month, another handler was killed by his elephant at a rubberwood plantation in Chawang district, thereforeuthern Thailand.
Chaichana Matchimwong was found dead by police with multiple tusk wounds, reports the Bangkok Post.
In 2017, a illustrious Thai elephant who asterisked in films and adverts crushed his handler to death at a zoological garden in Thailand.
Somsak Riangngern, 54, was killed at Chiang Mai zoological garden by a 32-year-old male elephant named Phlai Ekasit.
adult male Riangngern had fed Phlai and unshackled him so he might bathe and drink once the attack happened. As adult male Riangngern was walking far from the elephant once the animal smitten him with its trunk and tusks before grabbing him with its trunk.
Ekasit is standard in Siam having asterisked in 5 films together with the popular Ong Bak series prima martial arts skilled Tony Jaa.
Ekasit had reportedly been playacting in shows for tourists, tho' Wuthichai denied this, expression the zoological garden solely permits tourists to feed the animals.
Thailand is infamous for an elephant business trade that sees the animals performing in circuses, giving rides,or hired out for alternative varieties