Rangers struggle to control elephant's highway rampages

Forest rangers and police in Southwest China's Yunnan province are struggling to control a wild elephant that has sprung three attacks on parked cars on a major highway in four days.

The animal's latest rampage on the G213 highway linking Yunnan with Northwest China's Gansu province occurred on Monday afternoon, when it damaged nine cars, forest police in Yunnan's Xishuangbanna prefecture said.

The elephant, nicknamed Zhusunya ("Bamboo Shoot Teeth"), crushed or damaged almost 20 cars on the highway on Friday and Sunday. There have been no casualties from its sorties, near the Yexianggu (Wild Elephant Valley) nature reserve.