Two women tourists and a mahout were injured when the elephant the were riding collided with another elephant flinging them of the pachyderm’s back landing on the hard ground. All three were injured.
The accident occurred at an elephant village in east Pattaya at an elephant in Nongprue east Pattaya on Sept. 5 towards the end of a tour of the surrounding jungle. American tourists Alice Josephine Charoonsak 71 and Virginia Lee Stokes were getting ready to dismount their trusted 70-year-old make elephant named Plai Somjit when another male elephant 63-year-old Plai Boonsri decided to squeeze into the same spot to let off his riders.
Apparently, the space was too narrow for the two giants of the jungle who tried to muscle each other out of the way. The heavyweight tussle caused Plai Somjit to lose his footing and fell, sending his 3 riders tumbling to the ground.
Staff rushed to give emergency treatment to the injured before sending the 2 American ladies to the Bangkok Hospital Pattaya for further treatment.
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