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Sri Lankan elephant-keepers jailed after elephant dies of 96 stab wounds

An trainer directs an elephant at the Elephant Orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka, in 2007. [AFP]

A Sri Lankan court has jailed four staff from a well-known elephant orphanage over the death of a 23-year-old elephant that was fatally injured with sharp sticks in an apparent effort to control it. The male, which was living at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage, a popular tourist attraction near the…

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Sri Lanka jails elephant-keepers over ‘vicious’ killing

Sri Lankan elephant via AFP

A Sri Lankan court has jailed four staff from a well-known elephant orphanage over the death of a 23-year-old elephant that was fatally injured with sharp sticks in an apparent effort to control it. The male, which was living at the Pinnawala elephant orphanage, a popular tourist attraction near the…

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