Wild elephants spotted roaming through Johor town


JOHOR BARU: Two wild elephants were detected roaming around Taman Bandar Tiram here in the early hours of Wednesday (Oct 20) morning.

Seri Alam OCPD Supt Mohd Sohaimi Ishak said that a five-second video recorded on a closed-circuit camera showed an elephant walking in front of people's houses in the area.

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