Elephants ambush sugar cane lorries

Truckers in Thailand have been held up by hungry elephants who steal the raw sugar cane they transport.

The animals stomp onto the road and leave a trail of destruction in their wake.

Truck driver Puern Meksan said: "Sometimes the whole elephant herd of six or seven middle of the road and the trucks cannot go through.



"Some of them try to pull sugar cane from the truck, when they cannot, they just headbutt the truck front and break the windscreen."

Forest rangers have taken to closing the road to stop the robberies.

But there is a sad side to the story as elephants have been killed along with thousands of birds, frogs and deer, due to the location of the highway right through the Ang Lue Nai wildlife sanctuary.

There's a BBC news video here.