Tourist trampled to death by elephant in Thai national park

A chaotic bull elephant trampled and killed a 65-year-old tourer astatine a nationalist parkland successful Thailand connected Monday, according to parkland officials.

The tourer was taking a greeting locomotion with his woman erstwhile an elephant named Oyewan trampled him astatine Khao Yai National Park, nationalist parkland main Chaiya Huayhongthong told AFP.

Park rangers managed to scare the carnal away, which allowed the tourist’s woman to escape, Chaiya said.

"He was the 3rd idiosyncratic killed by Oyewan," helium said, adding that authorities volition conscionable connected Friday to determine connected however to woody with the elephant.

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The entranceway to Khao Yai National Park successful cardinal Thailand is seen successful December 2021. (Carola Frentzen/picture confederation via Getty Images)

"We volition astir apt determine to relocate him oregon alteration his behavior," helium told the outlet, without elaborating.

The tourer killed was identified arsenic Jirathachai Jiraphatboonyathorn from Lopburi province, the Bangkok Post reported.

A Thai lad washes an elephant adjacent the Khao Yai nationalist parkland connected March 19, 2017, successful Pak Chong, Thailand. (Isa Foltin/Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital reached retired to Khao Yai National Park but did not instantly perceive back.

An elephant bull stands successful the Ban Ta Klang elephant colony successful Surin, Thailand, connected Nov. 14, 2015. (Ian Robert Knight/picture confederation via Getty Images)

Wild elephants person caused an estimated 227 quality fatalities betwixt 2012 and 2024 successful Thailand, The Nation reported, citing a study from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation.

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The elephant colonisation successful Thailand has ballooned since 2015, rising from 334 to astir 800 past year, AFP reported. Authorities person been trying to negociate the colonisation by giving pistillate elephants contraceptive vaccines.