Blanca Ojanguren Garcia was simply 22 when she was killed by an elephant in Yao Yai, Thailand. Credit score: La Historical past USA, Twitter.
A Spanish girl has died after being attacked by an elephant at a well-liked animal sanctuary within the Thai island of Yao Yai.
Blanca Ojanguren Garcia, 22, from Valladolid, was a scholar finding out Regulation and Worldwide Relations on the College of Navarra. She was embarking on a research overseas programme at Tamkang College, and was set to finish her research this 12 months.
Girl killed while bathing the elephant
It was reported that the coed was bathing the elephant, in a well-liked vacationer hotspot the place guests can expertise animals up shut, when she was seemingly attacked. The elephant took an abrupt blow on the Spanish girl, who was later confirmed lifeless in a neighborhood hospital.
El Mundo, a well-liked Spanish information station, reported that of the 18 others that have been current on the incident, together with Garcia’s boyfriend, nobody else was injured. Tales circulating that the elephant ‘gored’ the Garcia have been sharply dismissed by Spanish media outlet EFE.
Valladolid Mayor provides sympathies
Valladolid Mayor Jesus Julio Carnero provided his ‘deepest condolences’ on social media platform ‘X’, with Spanish and Thai residents in a state of shock after the tragedy.
Elephants should not identified to be harmful animals, however can turn out to be violent in the event that they imagine they’re being threatened.
Thailand has a inhabitants of round 3500 elephants, with over 2,800 of these residing in vacationer areas catered for offering guests with an thrilling expertise.
Elephant assaults uncommon, however do occur
Solely a matter of months previous to the incident, one other Spanish vacationer was crushed to dying by a herd of elephants after he tried to take selfies with the beasts in a South African sport reserve, with witnesses, together with his fiancee commenting that the one factor remaining after the ambush was the remnants of the Spaniard’s garments, and his physique caved deep into the earth.
Euro Weekly Information coated a narrative again in 2022 when an elephant crushed and killed a civilian in India, on June 11.
Elephant assaults are a rarity, however as latest occasions depict, vacationers are warned to take care of warning when getting up shut and private with the highly effective animals.
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