Elephant and driver killed in crash in Mexico

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An five-ton elephant that escaped from a circus was involved in an accident with a bus early this morning on the outskirts of Mexico City. The animal and the 49-year-old driver, Tomás López Durán, were killed, and six people were injured.

The animal was trying to cross a busy highway shortly after midnight when it was hit by a bus owned by the Transportes Teotihuacán company.

The elephant, aged 40, had escaped from the Circo Unión and crossed two neighborhoods before the collision.

Click here for the report on El Universal. You can see pictures of the accident here and here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City