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SYDNEY - AN ELEPHANT toppled out of a truck and killed a circus worker in Australia on Thursday, police said.
'The man was killed, crushed to death, while the elephant was being offloaded from a truck,' a spokeswoman for the New South Wales police department said.
Police said they had no other details of the incident, which occurred on the grounds of a circus in the seaside community of Yamba, about 700 km north of Sydney.
The victim had been the handler of the elephant, named Anna, for two years, local television reported. -- REUTERS
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