Elephant kills 2 Thais in rubber plantation rampage

BANGKOK: A wild elephant killed two Thai men in separate pre-dawn attacks on Friday as they worked at a rubber plantation in eastern Thailand, police said. The two rubber tappers, both in their forties and working some three kilometres (two miles) apart, were killed at the plantation in Kang Hang Maew district of Chanthaburi province. “We believe that the same elephant killed both victims based on its path,” Lieutenant Sawai Chinwong from the local police station told AFP. A third rubber tapper, a woman, suffered two broken legs after she was also attacked by an elephant at the same site as of one of the fatalities.–AFP

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