Elephants Escape Burma Mud Pit to Cheers From Villagers Who Helped

Elephants Escape Burma Mud Pit to Cheers From Villagers Who Helped
An elephant herd is seen stranded in a mud pit, in Aung Zeha village, Rakhine state, Burma, on June 4, 2021, in this picture obtained from social media. Zaw Phyo Than and Kyaw Kyaw Oo/via Reuters
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Four wild elephants made their way out of the mud pit in Burma (also known as Myanmar) where they had been trapped on Friday, urged on by the villagers who dug them an escape route.

The villagers in the western Rakhine State usually avoid elephants when they come across them in the forest, but feared the animals would have died if they had stayed trapped in the hole.