Elephants on the run trash property, restaurant in Seoul

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2005

SEOUL (AFP) — Six elephants which escaped from a children's circus trampled property and trashed a restaurant as panicked residents looked on.

One woman needed treatment for a head wound after she was bowled over by an elephant's trunk, witnesses said Wednesday.

The jumbos suddenly fled in the middle of a performance when they were marching around the circus ring before hundreds of spectators at Children's Park in northeastern Seoul, where they performed five times a day.

Local resident Lee Hye-Ja, 64, said she was chatting to another woman, Noh In-Soon, 52, in the street.

"Suddenly an elephant appeared from nowhere and pushed her with its trunk," said Lee. "She fell to the ground and I jumped to flee the scene."

The elephant roamed through...