Elephant fatally electrocuted after smashing into cabin

[EunoiaJAYCEE]

IPOH, Jan 2 — A wild elephant was fatally electrocuted after crashing into a contractors’ cabin in Gerik, northern Perak earlier today.

The female pachyderm, which weighed roughly two tonnes, was believed to have smashed through the cabin sometime early this morning before it received a 240 volt shock from the electricity supplied to the cabin.

The cabin, located around 100 metres away from the Seri Banding army camp, was being used by contractors who were carrying out repair works on the site of a recent landslide.

Perak Department Of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) principal assistant director Wan Shaharuddin Wan Nordin said the Gerik Perhilitan office was alerted to the incident at around 7.30am.

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[tun_dr_m]

Late elephant is hereby awarded as Electrical Safety Demonstrator PRO qualified.

 

[steffychun]

One more dead animal one less to feed