They were 16-year-old Fahsai and 40-year-old Ploython, who was blind.
More than 100 elephants at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai province were moved to higher ground to escape rising flood waters.
“My worst nightmare came true when I saw my elephants floating in the water,” Ms Saengduean Chailert, director of the Elephant Nature Park in northern Thailand, told reporters. Rescue teams pick up schoolchildren who were trapped overnight in a school during flooding in the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai. PHOTO: AFP
Tourists were forced to evacuate hotels, and a local TV station showed a monk carrying a coffin through floodwaters to a cremation site.
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