An official said that an investigation will comply with. (Representational)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:
An elephant fatally gored its handler in a nature reserve on the Malaysian facet of the island of Borneo, on Christmas Day, park officers mentioned Thursday.
The handler was tending to an injured elephant calf when one other captured elephant abruptly gored him “very severely” within the chest, Augustine Tuuga, the director of the park in Sabah state, instructed AFP.
He added that Fred Lanson, 49, “died on the spot.”
The accident occurred on December 25 within the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park within the northeast of the island of Borneo.
“That is actually an unlucky incident,” Sabah’s minister of tourism, tradition and setting, Jafry Ariffin, instructed AFP, including there could be an investigation.
The park is a sanctuary for 16 Bornean elephants, an endangered species, with solely six handlers caring for them.
In December 2011, a wild elephant killed an Australian vacationer within the Tabin Wildlife Reserve in japanese Sabah.
Bornean elephants, a local species of the island, are a subspecies of Asian elephants.
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