Thai woman recovers after elephant attack

24-year old Thai woman Porn-Uma Pasukmuang is recovering well after an incident earlier this month that left her injured in a most unexpected way. An elephant who was entertaining tourists on a Pattaya beach suddenly flew into a rage and attacked Ms. Pasukmuang before darting into the sea. Pasukmauang was taken to Bangkok Pattaya Hospital by sea rescue workers as soon as they arrived, while others tried to keep the elephant from swimming into deep waters.

Once the elephant became calm about an hour later, its mahout was bale to put a chain around its ankle and bring it ashore. The mahout, 35-year old Yai Chanla said he’d brought the two-year old elephant to sell sugar cane to tourists, and the animal was usually nothing but playful with people and had never harmed anyone before.

When Ms. Pasukmuang bought some sugar cane, she dropped it, and when she reached down for it, the elephant became antsy and struck her down and tried to crush her. She was lucky to not have been injured more seriously.