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| Residents in Mon Village in Kampong Speu province attempt to divert a rampaging elephant named Sambo, who killed its owner last week and has continued to terrorize the area. (Photo by: Adam Miller) |
DPA
Phnom Penh - An elephant that killed its owner last week and then terrorized residents of a village in southern Cambodia has been subdued, local media reported Thursday.
The domesticated elephant named Sambo fled into a bamboo forest at Mon village in Kampong Speu province after stomping its owner to death, the Phnom Penh Post said. It then trampled farmland and chased local residents who responded by assaulting the pachyderm with sticks, knives and fireworks.
With the help of the Cambodian Forestry Administration, non-governmental organizations and three elephant trainers, Sambo was shot with tranquilizer darts Wednesday and subdued.
Villagers said the elephant had killed at least three people in the past three years and had become markedly more aggressive since escaping into the forest last week.
'This is an insane situation,' Jack Highwood, the head of an elephant sanctuary in Mondulkiri province, told the Post earlier this week. 'There are 300 or more villagers scattered around the elephant in all directions, and the elephant is actively hunting them.'
Highwood said it was unclear what the best solution would be for the elephant's future.
'A week ago or a time closer to the sad event of the elephant's killing of his [owner], we could have possibly taken it into our sanctuary, but now it knows how to chase and kill people, and it is a danger to humans and other elephants,' he said.
4 comments:
stupid....just killed that elephant better than to killed khmer human...stupid country
10:05PM thing like this happen many times for 10000 years. The Khmer MOR_DOMREY know what to do with it!
The English expert get too serious!While the 300 vilagers have fund with chasing game!
i'm glad they didn't kill the elephant like in the old day. yes, even elephant needs rehabilitation. phnom tamao zoological garden will be good home for it! god bless the elephants.
Khmer Empire had used elephants as their transportations.
How Khmer became large empire? They used elephants to fight with Vietnam( called Tonking)twice.
Khmer invaded Burma,Malaysia,Lao,Thai by using elephants.
The elephants were very important to Khmer Empire.Khmer knew how to train them.
So, please don't kill them,train them,calm down, use them as vehicles or for the next generation see them.
Look in Africa,there are so many tigers,elephants,and plenty of animals.
May God bless all Khmer animals.
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