The Asian elephant "lost feet" fell into a 2.6 -meter deep pond, rescuers smashed the pool to put water to rescue them

Jimu Journalist Ding Wei

On September 18, a Asian elephant in Pu'er in Yunnan fell into a farmer's reservoir and could not escape the risk. The local competent authorities and rescuers urgently rescued and eventually rescued the elephant. It is understood that the Asian elephant in the water is about 2.5 tons, and the depth of the reservoir is about 2.6 meters.

Asian elephant falls into the storage pool

On the morning of September 19th, a villager of a villager in Schoan -Tan Village, Liushun Town, Pu'er Simao District, Yunnan told Jimu Journalists that the farmer found that an Asian elephant fell into the reservoir in the early morning of September 18, and then reported to the local competent department. "The diameter of the reservoir was about 5 meters in diameter, and the depth was about 2.6 meters. At that time, the water was basically full. It fell in and kept calling, and was discovered by the farmers." The villagers introduced that the storage pool was located outside the village. For the artificial excavation of villagers, on the morning of the same day, the felling elephant was successfully rescued. "In recent years, the ecological environment is relatively good. There are often elephants near the village. At most, there are 104 elephants, and sometimes elephants will come to the village." The villager said.

Subsequently, Jimu Journalists learned from a rescue personnel that the water falling elephant belongs to the Asian elephant with a weighing nearly 2.5 tons and is a young and middle -aged phenomenon. According to the rescuer, because the water level in the reservoir is relatively deep, the Asian elephant in the water is unable to escape the risk. The rescue personnel originally planned to use a excavator to dig out the pool to rescue the elephant, but the road is difficult to do. In the end, the rescue staff decided to lead the elephant to one side of the pool, and artificially smashed the other side of the pool. "It rescued it in tens of minutes. After the pool was opened, it climbed out. It was not injured. After rescue, we quickly returned to the elephant group. Back to the elephant group. "The rescuer said that the Asian elephant from the water from the West Shuangda Na Jinghong was tens of kilometers from the incident.

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