Bangkok: In a heartbreaking case, a herd of six elephants drowned in a national park in Thailand trying to save a calf that was drowning after falling from a waterfall.

According to a report in The Washington Post, the Thailand Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation were quoted saying that the staff at Khao Yai National Park, located 85 miles away from Bangkok, spotted the three-year-old elephant calf after which five more bodies of the elephants were found at the bottom of the Haew Narok waterfall on Saturday.