Across China: Yunnan

Elephant rehabilitated

An Asian elephant, which became addicted to drugs after eating bananas smeared with heroin, is headed back to Kunming from Hainan province, after a three-year detoxification program, Xinhua said yesterday.

The 4-year-old male elephant, Xiguang, was among six captured by animal smugglers along the Sino-Myanmar border in March 2005 using bananas smeared with heroin. The animals were taken to China's Dehong autonomous prefecture of Dai and Jingpo.