A 22-year-old Spanish tourist was fatally attacked by an elephant while bathing it at an elephant sanctuary in Thailand.
A tourist was killed by an elephant in front of her boyfriend while on vacation in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, was bathing an elephant at Koh Yao Elephant Care on Yao Yai Island on Friday when the 50-year-old animal struck her down with its trunk. García, a law and international relations student at the University of Navarra in Spain, was rushed to a local hospital where she died from her injuries, local police said.
They and about 10 workers were uninjured when the elephant turned, the owner of Koh Yao Elephant Care told El Mundo.Koh Yao Elephant Care / Facebook The sanctuary, which houses three elephants, closed its doors with no planned reopening date, the owner said. García, who hails from a military family, had just completed her professional internships at Spain’s Navy Headquarters in Madrid, Her body was taken to another hospital on the island of Phuket to be prepared to be taken back to Spain.Friday’s killing marks the first fatal elephant attack of 2025, according to El Pais. There have been some 240 fatal incidents involving the typically gentle giants in the last 12 years, including 39 last year
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