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Before it was the terrorists. Now it's the elephants. "
The wall of red brick is gutted. In the middle of the living room lie the pieces of sheet metal which served as the roof. As if a mortar had just fallen on this small house in the village of Kithuluthuwa, in north-eastern Sri Lanka. Yet the turmoil of the civil war that tore the country apart until 2009 is far away. But the Tamil Tigers have given way to less violent, but very cumbersome beings: elephants.
Asian elephants: more precisely the
Elephas maximus maximus,
the Sri Lankan variant of the species.
“This is the second time that this kind of incident has happened in a month,”
tells us the owner of the Premathilaka house, who has lived here for 35 years.
The scenario is always the same: attracted by food, a pachyderm appears and, like the one who enters a porcelain store, causes irreparable damage.
"We would need an electric fence,
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