Horror moment elephants go on rampage & stampede injuring 13 people at religious festival in Sri Lanka
THE SERIAL KILLER
In 2006, an elephant named Osama bin Laden slaughtered 27 people in northeast India before he was finally shot dead.
He was accused of savagely killing 14 villagers in just one month.
The 10ft beast terrorised villagers for two years, destroying hundreds of homes and crushing dozens of people to death - prompting locals to name him after the evil al-Qaeda leader.
SAFARI SNIPE
A rampaging elephant chased a safari truck before flipping it in Zambia - killing an elderly tourist.
The big beast used its three-foot tusks to hook under the truck and flip it onto its side as the terrified tourists screamed and clung to their seats.
A woman from the US, 80, was killed in the incident as another tourist was seriously injured and four others had minor injuries.
FESTIVAL CHAOS
In 2018, horrifying footage showed an elephant killing his trainer before goring several worshippers at an Indian festival.
During the festival, one of the elephants loses its cool and throws the four people riding it - including the trainer - to the ground.
As horrified onlookers begin to flee the grounds, the male bull starts hurling them about with his trunk and tusks like rag dolls.
The elephant then tramples the helpless trainer, killing him.
DISEMBOWELLED
A man was disemboweled and trampled to death by an elephant in Makueni, Kenya in 2020.
Charles Mutisya, 73, was brutally killed while tending to his farm at 7am one morning in December.
The elderly man was found with his "intestines hanging outside the stomach".
TEMPLE OF DOOM
A temple worker was stomped to death by a wild elephant while taking a stroll In Hua Hin, Thailand.
Prasit Kanchanasilanon, 58, was found lying face-down in a pool of blood in front of the monks’ living quarters, according to the Bangkok Post.
He had suffered a fractured skull and a number of other horrific injuries.
CRUSHING BLOW
A furious elephant crushed a man to death after a crowd of workers teased a herd passing through a tea plantation with loud noises.
The swarm of workers started taunting and chasing the elephants in a bid to scare them off by shouting and honking car horns.
After darting towards the workers, the huge Indian elephant made a beeline for a man who had stumbled by the roadside while trying to escape before trampling him to death.
PAIR OF WILD BEASTS
At least one man was killed in southern India when two wild elephants went on a three-hour rampage leaving behind a trail of carnage.
A 55-year-old security guard was trampled to death after he came out of his house to see what was going on amid the widespread panic.
Horrific footage showed the bloodied body of the man after being repeatedly gored, butted and trampled in a doorway.