At around 6 a.m. on December 22, a 38-year-old man named Guo Juelun was trampled by an elephant and seriously injured in an oil palm garden in Changmona Village, Bobin Township, Tanintharyi Province, Myanmar.
On the day the man was trampled by an elephant, a regional public welfare organization rushed to the scene to carry out rescue work and sent the man to the People's Hospital of Bobin Town**. However, on December 24, the man's injuries did not improve and he was transferred to another hospital**.
A person in charge of a regional non-profit organization said that it was sent to Bobin Hospital on the same day, but the situation was not improving two days later, so it needed to be transferred to Mergui or Yangon People's Hospital. After he was trampled, he was seriously injured in his lower body and could not move.
Guo Juelun, who was trampled by elephants, lives alone, so he is currently cared for by villagers. Five months ago, an elephant trampled to death in an area of Waqiang village in Bobin Township.
Wild elephants are often found in Qiangmeng, Wading, Waqiang and other villages in Bobin Town. These wild elephants will enter the oil palm plantations to eat the young shoots of the oil palm, destroy the planting land, housing, etc., and pose a threat to people.
Wild elephants are also often spotted in the village of Woji, a town connected to Bobin, where wild elephants destroyed crop plots and farmland huts in December.