Elephants trapped for 2 days
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HELICOPTERS and a digger were used to free three wild Asian elephants — including a young calf — from a water tank where they had been trapped for more than two days.
Pictures showed the trio languishing in muddy waters with their trunks raised to breathe inside a concrete basin just a few meters wide, with the calf submerged up to its eyes.
The young elephant probably fell in before the adults tried unsuccessfully to help it out, forestry officials in the southwest province of Yunnan told Xinhua news agency.
More than a dozen wild elephants soon surrounded the tank, becoming agitated after repeated attempts to pull out their companions using their trunks.
The baby became increasingly frail, Xinhua said, as heavy rain stalled rescue efforts on Monday.
Rescuers used firecrackers and helicopters to keep the rest of the herd away, giving a digging machine the chance to smash one wall of the tank, allowing the elephants to escape.
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