A Scots tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant in Thailand.
The 36-year old was on holiday with his 16-year-old daughter on the Ko Samui island in Thailand.
Local reports say the pair were on a trekking tour on the tropical island when the elephant attacked them.
The elephant is said to have left the man for dead after stabbing him in the chest with its tusk then ran away into a nearby forest.
His daughter suffered minor injuries in the attack, which happened at 2.30pm Thai time yesterday.
A report from the Samui Times newspaper suggests the elephant was being teased with a banana before it became unsettled and attacked the tourist.
The 16-year-old was initially treated at Samui International Hospital before being moved to Bangkok International Hospital on the island.
A spokeswoman for the Bangkok International Hospital hospital confirmed that the teenager was being treated there for minor injuries.
The spokesman said the man’s body had initially been taken to the hospital before being transferred to the Samui Government Hospital on the island.
The Foreign Office said it had no information available on the incident.
The dead man’s full name is still unclear.
Writing from her hospital bed last night, the man’s daughter hit out at reports that her father had been teasing the elephant with a banana when it bolted.
She said on a Thai newspaper website: “He was not teasing the elephant as I was his 16 year old daughter who is lying in hospital and I was on it.
“I know everything that happened. This is a serious situation !!!”
Eilidh and her family are originally from the Isle of Islay off the Argyll coast but are believed to have moved to the Scottish mainland around two years ago.