‘Mammoth’ effort saves Sri Lankan elephants

Two young elephants washed out to sea were saved from drowning yesterday by the Sri Lankan navy in the second such incident off the island in as many weeks.

The navy said the pair of wild elephants were brought ashore after a “mammoth effort” involving navy divers, ropes and a flotilla of boats to tow them back to shallow waters.

Photos showed the elephants barely keeping their trunks above water in the deep seas off the coast of Sri Lanka.