MUST SEE: 2 elephants swept away at sea rescued

TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka (KTRK) -- The Sri Lanka Navy saved two young elephants that were swept out to sea on Sunday.

The rescue marked the second such rescue this month.

Navy patrol boats towed the pair back to a jungle area near Foul Point, according to Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror newspaper.

On July 11, navy sailors helped rescue a elephant that was found eight miles offshore in the Indian Ocean near Kokilai.

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