Elephants that killed elderly farmer herded back into Tabin reserve


KOTA KINABALU: The Bornean elephants that trampled an elderly man to death and injured his wife in Lahad Datu have been herded back into the Tabin Wildlife Reserve.

Sabah Wildlife Department director Augustine Tuuga said there were no plans to take punitive action against the animals that killed Lopis Jubin, 90, and seriously injured his wife Dalama Hamid, 61, at their farm in Kampung Perpaduan Begahad Scheme which borders the reserve.

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