State troopers find elephant roaming around upstate New York

An elephant which was burnt by Napalm during the Vietnam War was found roaming around in upstate New York after it wandered away from an animal sanctuary.

New York State Police said troopers were called to Westtown, around 70 miles away from New York City, after reports of an escaped 44-year-old Vietnamese elephant named Fritha.

The elephant was burnt by Napalm during the war and has since been living in the Sanctuary for Animals in Westtown, which she wandered away from on Sunday night.

Pictures show the lost elephant wandering round in the dark after leaving the sanctuary.

State troopers found Fritha and managed to escort her back home.

“Never a dull moment in Troop F,” a police spokesman wrote on Facebook. “On November 11, troopers patrolled to Westtown to escort a lost elephant back home.

“She is 44 years old and from Vietnam. She was burnt by Napalm during the war.

"She wandered away from an animal sanctuary and was escorted back home by troopers and workers from the sanctuary.”

Local media reports the elephant wandered off after a worker forgot to turn on an electric fence that keeps her within her designated space in the sanctuary at night.