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A baby elephant that was rescued from a cesspool pit in Bueng Kan, has been transferred to an elephant hospital in Surin for treatment of infected wounds.

A female calf elephant, less than a month old, was found alone, with a rotten, worm-filled leg caused by a metal trap. 

A two-year-old male elephant, nicknamed Chao Duan, was rescued on Friday night after it fell into a 70-centimetre-deep and four-metre-wide muddy pit where it was stuck for two days in Chumphon province.

The body of a baby elephant was found floating in the reservoir of the Bang Lang Dam in Yala province on Friday evening.

A baby elephant was found drowned in a pond in Loei’s Wang Saphung district on Thursday night.