A tourist was killed by an elephant in front of her boyfriend while on vacation in Thailand, according to reports. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, was bathing an elephant at Koh Yao Elephant Care on Yao ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the University ...

Experts said the elephant that killed Blanca García was likely stressed by the pressure of living and interacting with ...

Blanca Ojanguren García, from Valladolid in northwest ... (Previous reports conflicted on Garcia's injuries and whether they were caused by the elephant's tusk, not its trunk.) ...

Spanish newspaper El Mundo identified the victim as Blanca Ojanguren García. The outlet reported that she and her boyfriend were among eight tourists at the sanctuary when the incident happened.

Blanca Ojanguren Garcia, 22, and her boyfriend were giving a bath to an elephant at Koh Yao Elephant Care center when the animal seemed to “panic” and pierced her with its tusk, police told CNN.

On Friday, 22-year-old Blanca Ojanguren Garcia was visiting Koh Yao Elephant Care in Ko Yao Yai when she was gored to death, reported news outlets the Thai Examiner and the Nation. Officials in ...

Blanca Ojanguren Garcia, 22, from Valladolid, was bathing an elephant on Friday at the Koh Yao sanctuary on the Thai island of Yao Yai when the animal suddenly caused her the fatal blow.

Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, was bathing Clarín the elephant when it gruesomely drove its tusk into her at the Koh Yao Elephant Care centre on the island of Yao Yai, Thailand. The student ...

Blanca Ojanguren Garcia, 22, was on a university exchange programme in Taiwan as part of the fifth year of a Law and International Relations Degree at the University of Navarra (Picture ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about "elephant sanctuaries" after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

The Koh Yao Elephant Care centre, where the incident happened, says it is committed to "providing responsible and ethical interactions with elephants".