Thursday, March 15, 2007

Circus elephant used for demolishing illegal housing

Bangladeshi demolition workers have deployed a new heavyweight tool to get rid of illegally constructed buildings.

Suffering from a shortage of tools and heavy equipment, city chiefs recruited a circus elephant to come to the aid of workers in the city of Barisal.

The animal rapidly reduced the illegal properties to rubble, carrying out the work of 10 men in a matter of minutes.

"We didn't have any bulldozer to conduct the demolition drive in Barisal, so our officers had to hire an elephant from the circus," city corporation Chief Executive Abdul Mannan told the AFP news agency.

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