KUALA TERENGGANU: It was a rude awakening for 32 senior citizens when the chartered bus they were traveling rammed into an elephant at dawn, killing the pachyderm. “ Many sobbed uncontrollably at the sight of the dead elephant,” she said. She said the group, who were on a three day, two nights tour of Betong in southern Thailand, had departed Kuala Terengganu at midnight. PIX 1 by Adrian David: The severely dented front of the chartered bus and its shattered windscreen at Km59 of the East-West Highway along the Grik-Jeli route. PIX 2 & 3 by Adrian David: The dead elephant lying by the side of the road near Grik, following the crash with a chartered bus from Kuala Terengganu to Betong in southern Thailand.

Source: New Strait Times August 24, 2017 10:07 UTC