Sambo is hauled onto a truck in a village in Cambodia's south-west (AFP: John Maloy )
December 27, 2010
AFP
AN enraged bull elephant that killed its owner and then went on a 10-day rampage in the Cambodian countryside has been taken in by a wildlife rescue centre.
The bull elephant, named Sambo, terrorised villagers in the southwestern province of Kampong Speu and destroyed their crops before he was subdued by wildlife workers on December 15.
The five-tonne animal was confined to a rice field for more than a week while a special cage was built to transport him to the Phnom Tamao rescue centre on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital.
Sambo, who has displayed violent behaviour in the past and is thought to have killed four people over the years, arrived at the centre on Saturday evening, a late Christmas present for the animal sanctuary.
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