Exotic Incident #758

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Fort Wayne, IN - USA

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31/01/2005

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An elephant fatally trampled her trainer while being loaded into a truck. The trainer died after being taken to the hospital with critical chest injuries. The elephant, owned by Tarzan Zerbini Circus, was hired to perform in the Fort Wayne Mizpah Shrine Temple’s annual circus at the time of the trampling. In a similar incident, another employee of the same circus was injured in 1995 when the elephant knocked him to the ground and stomped on his abdomen.