Moment elephant SMASHES Aussie vacationers’ automobile window in quest of meals

This is the stunning second an enormous elephant charged at an Australian household’s van and smashed by means of their window in quest of meals throughout their vacation in Sri Lanka.

Video exhibits the feminine elephant known as Nitra rising from the bushes in Yala National Park in southeast Sri Lanka and making a bee-line for the van Kasun Basnayake and his household had employed.

The driver desperately tries to reverse the automobile away from Nitra however she makes use of her tusk to smash by means of the van window earlier than utilizing her trunk to go looking the within of the automobile for meals. 

But a quick-thinking Kasun threw his son’s chips out of the window to distract the elephant. And certain sufficient, the hungry elephant shortly steps away from the automobile to feast on the meals. 

The driver shortly places the automobile in first gear and speeds away from the elephant – however not earlier than it smashes its head into the aspect of the van. 

Video exhibits the feminine elephant rising from the bushes in Yala National Park in southeast Sri Lanka and making a bee-line for the van Kasun Basnayake and his household had employed

The driver desperately tries to reverse the automobile away from Nitra however she makes use of her tusk to smash by means of the van window earlier than utilizing her trunk to go looking the within of the automobile for meals

Kasun, from Perth, Western Australia, advised the BBC: ‘It began sniffing round our ft for meals and the driving force advised us to offer it something we had so I fed it my son’s leftover sandwich.

‘He advised me to throw the remainder out the window so I did and the driving force then managed to hurry off.

‘Those sandwiches and chips most likely saved our lives.’

No one was injured within the incident that occurred on Monday on the Culp Temple Road contained in the Yala National Park. 

The household had been travelling in direction of the Situlpauwa temple, which is fashionable with vacationers, after they have been ambushed by the elephant.

The driver desperately tries to reverse the automobile away from Nitra however she makes use of her tusk to smash by means of the van window earlier than utilizing her trunk to go looking the within of the automobile for meals

But a quick-thinking Kasun threw his son’s chips out of the window to distract the elephant. And certain sufficient, the hungry elephant shortly steps away from the automobile to feast on the meals

The driver shortly places the automobile in first gear and speeds away from the elephant – however not earlier than it smashes its head into the aspect of the van

The Culp Temple street is reportedly a key spot that elephants use to ambush wide-eyed vacationers and steal their meals.

The Yala National Park has a protected space of practically 130,000 hectares of land consisting of forests, grasslands and lagoons. 

The park is house to animals akin to elephants, leopards, sloths, jackals and crocodiles.