An elephant toppled out of a truck and killed a circus worker in Australia, police said. "The man was killed, crushed to death, while the elephant was being offloaded from a truck," a spokeswoman for the New South Wales police department said.

Police said they had no other details of the incident, which occurred on the grounds of a circus in the seaside community of Yamba, about 700 km (435 miles) north of Sydney.

The victim had been the handler of the elephant, named Anna, for two years, local television reported.

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