In 2017, an elephant camp owner and a mahout were charged with recklessness causing death and injuries after an elephant killed a Chinese tour guide and injured two tourists in the Thai beach town, Pattaya. In 2013, a 27-year-old elephant had its tusks cut after it attacked and killed a woman.

Police in Thailand have charged an elephant keeper with negligence after an elephant killed a Spanish tourist at a sanctuary in southern Thailand last week.

A "panic-stricken" elephant killed a Spanish tourist while she was bathing the animal at a sanctuary in southern Thailand, police said on Monday.

Woman reportedly gored to death by elephant's tusk. She walked in front of the elephant when it took one of its tusks and gored her to death, reported the Thai Examiner. She was r

Blanca Ojanguren, a 22-year-old student from Spain, was killed by an elephant on Friday during a bathing session at Koh Yao Elephant Care

The mahout faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of 200,000 baht (£4,642). According to eyewitnesses, the elephant was startled when Garcia moved in front of it and pushed her into the concrete edge of the pond with her tusk.

A Spanish woman was killed during a visit to Thailand after an elephant she was bathing panicked and pierced her with their tusk.