Chachoengsao – A wild elephant was found dead beside a road in Chachoengsao’s Sanam Chaikhet district. Electrocution was suspected to be the cause of its death.
The male elephant, believed to be about 15 years old, was found lying dead on the road at the entrance to a villager’s house that was cordoned off with barbed wire connected to a car battery.
A group of local administration officials, forest rangers, and police were dispatched to investigate the scene.
Villagers claimed that they protected their tapioca plantations by barricading them with barbed wires and connected them with car batteries to prevent wild animals from getting into their farms.
They claimed that the electrical power from the car batteries did not kill elephants, but merely scared them off.
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