A Thai man has been charged with “negligence causing death” after an elephant gored a Spanish tourist at a sanctuary in southern Thailand last week.

Thai police charged a mahout with negligence on Wednesday after an elephant killed a Spanish tourist at a sanctuary in southern Thailand last week, police said. Police charged the mahout, an employee of the sanctuary,

BANGKOK: Police in Phang Nga province have filed charges against a Thai mahout after an elephant under his care caused the death of a Spanish tourist on Koh Yao Yai island in Koh Yao district.

A Spanish female tourist tragically died after being pushed by an elephant during a bathing tour on Koh Yao Yai in Phang Nga. The impact caused her to hit a rocky pool edge, resulting in severe injuries that later led to her death at the hospital.

A "panic-stricken" elephant killed a Spanish tourist while she was bathing the animal at a sanctuary in southern Thailand, police said on Monday.

Police in Thailand have charged a mahout with negligence after an elephant under his care gored a Spanish tourist at a sanctuary last week. Theerayut Inthaphudkij, 38, is the caretaker of the female elephant, called Pgang Somboon, responsible for the fatal injury to the tourist, Phang Nga Tourism and Sports Office said.

Blanca Ojanguren García, 23, was bathing the animal at a care centre in Koh Yao district when the elephant gored her with its tusk.

Thai authorities arrested an elephant handler in the case of a 22-year-old Spanish tourist who died after being injured by an elephant at a sanctuary in the south of the country.