An approximately three-tonne deceased male elephant is pulled from the waters of a bomb crater in Mondulkiri province on Oct 6. - Environment ministry
PHNOM PENH: Tissue samples from a male elephant weighing approximately three tonnes, found dead in a B-52 bomb crater in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province, were taken to Phnom Penh for further analysis on Monday (Oct 7) to determine the exact cause of death.
Local community members discovered the roughly 30-year-old Asian elephant in the crater – a remnant from a past war – in Ou Am village in Keo Seima district’s Sre Khtum commune on Oct 5.
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