A resident suffered serious injuries after being attacked by wild elephants from the Way Kambas National Park (TNWK) Lampung forest on Thursday, November 10 in the morning.
"The victim suffered a fracture to his left leg, a right rib fracture," said Head of Section II of the Way Bungur Balai TNWK Nazarudin when contacted in East Lampung, quoted from Antara, Friday, November 11.
The victim, named Zarkoni (44), a resident of Add Dadi Village, Purbolinggo District, East Lampung Regency, was immediately evacuated to the hospital for help.
Currently, the victim is still undergoing treatment at Ahmad Yani Hospital, Metro City, Lampung.
"This time at 2 p.m., the victim underwent surgery, hopefully his condition will improve. He is currently being treated," he said.
He stated that he helped to alleviate the disaster experienced by the victims. "On the basis of humanity, of course we will help," he said.
Regarding the chronology of the incident occurred at 19.30 WIB, Thursday 11 November. Kal, Zarkoni and his two friends, Sugiyanto and Saidi went to the field to guard the disturbance of wild animals.
They then waited and rested in the hut located in the corn fields.
"The victim and Saidi slept on the hut, while Sugiyanto was downstairs on guard. At around 02.30 WIB, suddenly an elephant was near Sugiyanto so he immediately ran and then the elephant knocked down the hut which was Zarkoni and Saidi who were on the hut. Because the victim Zarkoni did not have time to run, then the wild elephant attacked him," he explained.
He said, after the wild elephant went, the victim could only be evacuated. The elephant that injured the victim had been herded into the forest.
"There is only an elephant. And the elephant that injured the victim was not installed with GPS, so it was not monitored by the team," he said.
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