Overworked elephant rips Thai owner in half

An angry elephant ripped his owner in half after being forced to work under hot weather in Thailand.

The Takua Thung Police Station responded to a call about an elephant owner who had died.

Authorities were told that Pom Pam, a 20-year-old male elephant, ripped apart his owner.

Rescue workers, officers and the village chief went to the scene of the incident and found WongFAed's body in the middle of a rubber plantation. His body was split in half in a pool of blood, with Pom Pam standing over it.

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Pom Pam was forced to carry wood in the rubber plantation prior to the attack. According to the officers, the hot weather made the elephant go crazy and attacked his owner.

According to the weather forecast for the month of August, daytime temperatures can go as high as 88.6 degrees F.

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Rescuers used a dart gun to tranquilize Pom Pam and then retrieved WongFAed's body, which was handed over to his relatives for his funeral.

In 1989 Thailand's government banned the use of elephants to carry wood through forested areas, but the practice still exists in some areas.

Duncan McNair, the CEO of the charity Save The Asian Elephants, told Newsweek that Asian elephants can attack and kill when they are abused or stressed. They suffer a lot when they are broken and forced to work in logging and related activities.

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According to Save The Asian Elephants, there are over 2000 deaths and injuries caused by captive elephants in unnatural forced activities.

Elephants in Thailand suffer abuse at the hands of humans, such as getting pierced by bullhooks, a stick with a metal hook at the end, to control their movement.

Elephants can hurt humans if they feel unsafe or distressed. An elephant crashed a woman's funeral and trampled on her corpse in June.

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