Elephant falls down and dies while tourists ride Cambodia

- An elephant in Cambodia Friday during a ride with tourists on her back collapsed and deceased. The female elephant collapsed from a heart attack on the way to the famous Angkor Wat temple complex. The incident makes a lot of loose by animal lovers.

Elephant Sambo had been working at the time of the heart attack forty minutes in the heat. The temperature in the area at that time was around 40 degrees. Animal demand an investigation into the incident and wonder why an old elephant forced to make tourists rides around 40-45 years.

The animal fifteen years was used by Angkor Elephant Company for driving tourists. The company's manager announces that everyone is very grieved about the death of Sambo. 'A vet concluded that she died of a heart attack due to high temperatures and lack of wind. '

Facebook published photographs of Sambo elephant lying dead on the ground. The photos have been shared more than 8,100 times.

This led to a
Online petition against the use of elephants in the tourism industry of the Angkor Wat complex. Meanwhile, the petition was signed by more than 14,000 people. The petition states that the death of Sambo should be the final wake-up call for the tourist industry to stop this terrible practice. APSARA, the body that manages the complex and protects, is called upon to learn from the incident.

'Elephants are wild animals and you need to create on any rides,' said a spokesman for World Animal Protection Netherlands, which makes hard for several years to abolish elephant rides. 'Entertainment Wildlife is necessarily a bad thing. Elephants in these tourist areas are trained for this type of practice; are exploited and we have against strong objections. If you'd like to see an elephant, go to a safari park and grab a pair of binoculars to see how beautiful they are. '