From what I read on said paper, the poor animal escaped from a warehouse where she was kept and fed, along other circus animals —another elephant and 2 camels, if I remember correctly.

His keeper was feeding her when “Indra” suddenly panicked and went loose. Now, the paper doesn’t get into the detail of why this panic attack happened. Was the keeper mistreating the pachyderm? I’ll see if I find more info about this story.

If you guys wish to give a fortean spin to this news in the mean time, this happened not very far from the ancient Teotihuacan archeological site…

Poor animal, maybe she just had enough of that miserable life. I remember this time I went with my sisters and two small cousins to one of those circus; they had an elephant so old and emaciated, you could count the ribs of the poor beast’s skeleton, and yet people took their kids and put them on top of the animal’s back so they could take a photo… Terrible.

And of course, my condolences to the family of the driver, and my prayers go to the injured passengers.