Mawbima journalist killed by wild elephant

BY Cassendra Doole-2015-09-09

A provincial reporter, 46-year-old Priyantha Ratnayake, a correspondent attached to Mawbima and Ceylon Today, who was covering an assignment on wild elephants with other reporters in Samagipura was killed yesterday by one of the elephants, police said.
The reporter was charged and killed by one of the elephants while covering a wildlife episode featuring wildlife officials attempting to drive away wild jumbos in a village in Minneriya.
The incident happened in the Papisiya Wewa area in Minneriya.
His body was taken to the Hingurakgoda Base Hospital, police said.
On 18 September 1951, famed photographer Eric Swan was also killed in a wild elephant attack while attempting to photograph wild elephants in Tamankaduwa, 27 miles from Polonnaruwa.