{"id":1161,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/chinese-tour-guide-trampled-to-death-by-rampaging-elephant\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:11","slug":"chinese-tour-guide-trampled-to-death-by-rampaging-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/chinese-tour-guide-trampled-to-death-by-rampaging-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Tour Guide Trampled To Death By Rampaging Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chinese tour guide has been killed by a rampaging elephant that attacked a group of tourists in Thailand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Chinese tour guide has been killed by a rampaging elephant that attacked a group of tourists in Thailand.<\/p>\n

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He Yongjie, 35, tried to pull away a tourist who was being attacked by an elephant but was kicked away and trampled to death at the Sam Liam Thong Kham elephant camp near Pattaya on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Local police said that the 17-year-old elephant named Plai Uthen attacked after being prodded by its mahout and had also been surrounded by He\u2019s tour group who were taking photos, PearVideo reported.<\/p>\n

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However, the Bangkok Post reported that one of the tourists had pulled the elephant\u2019s tail which angered the animal.<\/p>\n

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A number of Chinese witnesses later denied in interviews with state media that this had happened.<\/p>\n

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A man who was riding on the animal at the time told cqnews.net that He, who worked for a Chongqing tour agency, was trying to save a tourist from his group when he was kicked into a nearby ditch and trampled on by the elephant.<\/p>\n

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The man, a member of another tour group from Shanghai, said he and his wife had just climbed onto its back when the elephant stopped walking.<\/p>\n

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Its mahout tried to get it to move, first by pulling on its chain and then pricking its head with an ankus.<\/p>\n

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The elephant responded by charging towards a tourist coach, throwing the man\u2019s wife off its back, before attacking the tourists that had surrounded it. The man, who managed to remain seated on its back, saw He pulling a tourist out of the way only to be thrown into the ditch and trampled on.<\/p>\n

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The Shanghai man and his wife were slightly injured and have returned home. One tourist from He\u2019s party was seriously injured in the incident and is being treated in a Thai hospital. He\u2019s family and representatives from his company are staying in Pattaya while police investigate the incident. The elephant park has offered He\u2019s family 200,000 yuan (US$30,500) in compensation but the family has yet to accept the offer. The Bangkok Post said that Prasert Thawee-apiradeeboonsueb, owner of the elephant camp, and Au Bamrung, the mahout, had been charged with recklessness causing death and injury on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Source: SCMP<\/p>\n

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