To-day again an electrocuted Elephant: it’s time that the Thai authorities are showing more responsibility concerning strickt rules and laws for the distribution and the installations of electricity! Lots of people and animals are dying unnecessarely due to nonchalance, negliciance, stinginess and lack of control and inspections concerning electrich distribution and installations from the side of the Electricity-board.
Another Pattaya Elephant Dies Through Electrocution
Another elephant is electrocuted in an elephant encampment on its way for a monthly checkup in Sattahip.
Pattaya 24th January 2010[PDN] This following incident of yet another electrocution of an elephant was reported yesterday, 23rd January at 5.30pm to Police Lieutenant Arnon Inphorng , (NaJomtien Police Investigator)
Mr. Uay Yuirum [61], stated that on the day in question, as he was riding his elephant Pung Saegjaun [50] in the rain to the Nern NaJomtien Elephant Camp in Sattahip, for her monthly check at the back of the elephant camp, he felt a surge of electricity through his leg and was thrown of his elephant onto a grass verge at the side of the road. At the same time as he was thrown, he felt his elephant shudder before she fell by the side of a high voltage electricity post.
Here the full sad story with more photos of negliance, nonchalance and, might be, stingyness in Pattaya Daily News:
www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2010/01/24/another-elephant-dies-through-electrocution/
Courtesy: Pattaya Daily News
