Elephant escaped circus and rammed family home

A family in Värnamo in southern Sweden awoke on Sunday morning to find an Indian elephant wandering about in their garden after having escaped from a circus which had set up camp in the vicinity.



The Enoksson family caught the whole elephantine drama on film and can be heard becoming increasingly anxious as the animal approached and collided with their house.

"We became very frightened and then we heard a crash in the wall of the house," said Sofia Enoksson. The elephant had apparently evaded the attention of their handlers at a circus which had made its base near the residential neighbourhood in the small Swedish town.



Enoksson was critical of the choice of location for the circus. "I think it is very serious that they let elephants run free near houses where there are a lot of children milling about," she said. The elephant eventually lumbered off across a field and the family called the police who in turn called the circus to enquire as to what was being done to deal with the matter.

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