Rogue elephant in Mersing captured and relocated

Coaxed out: Perhilitan personnel using tame elephants Rambai and Kala to guide the wild elephant onto a lorry so that it could be transported to the Endau Rompin National Park.

MERSING: A 15-year-old male elephant that strayed from its herd and was causing problems for residents near Kampung Sri Mersing here was captured and relocated by the state National Parks and Wildlife Department (Perhilitan).

Village resident Sihen Rahman, 77, said that the elephant was mischievous and often wandered near his home and ate his banana plants.