Myanmar Villagers Free Elephants Stuck in Mud Pit

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5 June 2021 17:54 WIB

An elephant herd is seen stranded in a mud pit, in Aung Zeha village, Rakhine state, Myanmar, June 4, 2021, in this picture obtained from social media. Four wild elephants made their way out of the mud pit in Myanmar where they had been trapped on Friday (June 4), urged on by the villagers who dug them an escape route. ZAW PHYO THAN AND AUNG KYAW KYAW OO/via REUTERS

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An elephant herd is seen stranded in a mud pit, in Aung Zeha village, Rakhine state, Myanmar, June 4, 2021, in this picture obtained from social media. The villagers in the western Rakhine State usually avoid elephants when they come across them in the forest, but they feared the animals would have died if they had stayed trapped in the hole. ZAW PHYO THAN AND AUNG KYAW KYAW OO/via REUTERS

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An elephant herd is seen stranded in a mud pit, in Aung Zeha village, Rakhine state, Myanmar, June 4, 2021, in this picture obtained from social media. Video shared with Reuters showed the villagers showing the stranded elephants where they've dug the escape route, before they attempted to climb on the steep slope on the side of the pit. ZAW PHYO THAN AND AUNG KYAW KYAW OO/via REUTERS

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Villagers try to help an elephant herd stranded in a mud pit, in Aung Zeha village, Rakhine state, Myanmar, June 4, 2021, in this picture obtained from social media. ZAW PHYO THAN AND AUNG KYAW KYAW OO/via REUTERS

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