Elderly woman seriously injured by circus elephant

An elderly woman in the town of Zlin sustained serious injuries after approaching an elephant’s enclosure in the circus grounds and attempting to feed one of the animals. The elephant picked her up by the strap of her handbag and carried her up over the fence into the enclosure. The strap broke before the animal put her down and the sixty-eight year old woman fell from a height of about two meters. She was reportedly taken to Zlin hospital with serious injuries. Police are investigating the incident which happened at a time when the outer fence to the circus grounds was being fixed and no measures were taken to prevent people walking through.