Thai police charged a mahout with negligence on Wednesday after an elephant killed a Spanish tourist at a sanctuary in southern Thailand last week, police said. Police charged the mahout, an employee of the sanctuary,

A Thai man has been charged with “negligence causing death” after an elephant gored a Spanish tourist at a sanctuary in southern Thailand last week.

BANGKOK - Police in Phang Nga province have filed charges against a Thai mahout after an elephant under his care caused the death of a Spanish tourist on Koh Yao Yai island in Koh Yao district.

Blanca Ojanguren García, 23, was bathing the animal at a care centre in Koh Yao district when the elephant gored her with its tusk.

Police in Thailand have charged the mahout responsible for elephant that gored a Spanish woman to death last week in Koh Yao.

Police in Thailand have charged a mahout with negligence after an elephant under his care gored a Spanish tourist at a sanctuary last week. Theerayut Inthaphudkij, 38, is the caretaker of the female elephant, called Pgang Somboon, responsible for the fatal injury to the tourist, Phang Nga Tourism and Sports Office said.

A ‘stressed’ elephant has killed a Spanish tourist during a bathing session at a Thailand elephant sanctuary. The 23-year-old woman was hit by the ‘panic stricken’ animals

Wild elephants have killed 227 people, including tourists, in the past 12 years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Thai authorities arrested an elephant handler in the case of a 22-year-old Spanish tourist who died after being injured by an elephant at a sanctuary in the south of the country.