Elephant crushed to death after being hit by bus on a motorway

This was the horrific moment a bus carrying 25 people on a motorway crashed into a runaway elephant.
The double-decker coach had been travelling from Bangkok to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand when it ploughed into the eight-year-old bull which had strayed onto the road.
Someone spray painted a horse to make it look like a zebra Mobile phone footage captured the moment the dazed elephant was struck by the bus – which was travelling at around 60mph and skidded for some 30 metres with the elephant under the front wheels.
Heartbreaking pictures show the male elephant crushed to death with the... read more