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THAILAND-WILDLIFE-ELEPHANT
HANDOUT RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE AND EDITORIAL SALES - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Friends of the Asian Elephant"
A handout picture released by the Friends of the Asian Elephant NGO on August 5, 2010 shows workers spraying antiseptic on a wounded 22-year-old female elephant Maekapae at the NGO in the northern Thai province of Lampang. An elephant who stepped on a landmine in Myanmar walked for five days and swam across a river with a badly injured foot to return to Thailand for treatment, veterinarians said on August 5. Maekapae was about 10 kilometres (six miles) inside Myanmar working in the logging industry when she was injured, said Soraida Salwala, founder of Friends of the Asian Elephant, an NGO in Lampang province in northern Thailand. It is expected to take five or six months for Maekapae to recover because about 40 percent of her foot was damaged in the explosion, said the hospital's chief veterinarian, Preecha Puangkham. She is the 13th elephant treated for landmine injuries at the hospital since 1997. AFP PHOTO / Friends of the Asian Elephant / HO
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