mon 01 feb 2016, 22:09

Elephant crushes tourist’s death

Koh Samui –

A British tourist in Thailand doodgetrapt by an elephant. The horrific accident happened before the eyes of his 16-year-old daughter.

Photo: AFP

The 36-year-old Gareth Crowe, together with his 16-year-old daughter Eilidh Hughes and a local guide on the trek on the elephant on the island of Koh Samui, reports the Telegraph.

According to witnesses, it went wrong when the guide of the elephant climbed up to take a picture. The animal struck him with its trunk and pierced his body with a fang. Then it struck the elephant on lair then he is the man doodtrapte and he also pierced it with a fang. He was killed.

The 16-year-old daughter came away with only minor injuries.

The teenage girl escaped with minor injuries in the fall as the elephant ran off into the forest. She has been to the hospital in Bangkok. “Elidh makes it good, but we don’t know exactly what happened,” let her mother to the newspaper to know from the hospital.