Updated On: 09 May, 2019 04:00 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Local residents claimed that the two elephants' mother tried to rescue them multiple time but went all efforts in vain

Screengrab from the video
Two elephant calves that had fallen into a pit in Galkiriyagama, Sri Lanka on Monday. The two elephants were rescued from the pit after struggling for almost three hours. A video of their rescue effort is now going viral on social media.
Both elephants had fallen into the pit located on private land. Local residents claimed that the two elephants' mother tried to rescue them multiple time but went all efforts in vain.