Young elephant electrocuted in Thailand

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young male elephant was electrocuted in Thailand after stumbling into a drain and crashing into a restaurant sign, police said yesterday.

Two elephant handlers were walking 10-year-old Plai Nam Choke — ‘Lucky’ in English — around a town in Samut Prakhan province south of Bangkok, offering passers-by the chance to feed him for cash. But Lucky stumbled into an open sewer and collided with an electric signboard outside a restaurant. “He likely died from electrocution,” a police officer said. (AFP)