This is the terrifying moment an elephant charges a safari truck filled with British tourists in Tanzania.

Footage shows a group of holidaymakers laughing and enjoying their trip as they watch an elephant standing at a distance in a safari park.

Their laughter quickly turns into screams of panic and horror when the giant animal suddenly charges towards the vehicle.

The elephant rams into the truck, breaking the window and jolting the vehicle – before one tourist stuns the group with her unexpectedly calm reaction.

‘I didn’t see it,’ she shouts, as another tourist replies: ‘Are you joking? It was the elephant.’

The camera briefly lost focus as one man exclaimed he was bleeding from the ordeal.

The vehicle sped away to safety, and the shards of glass could be seen scattered across the seats and the floor of the vehicle.

The tourists could be heard telling the driver ‘just go’, fearing another charge. 

This is the terrifying moment an elephant charges a safari truck filled with British tourists in Tanzania. Footage shows a group of holidaymakers laughing and enjoying their trip as they watch an elephant standing at a distance in a safari park

Their laughter quickly turns into screams of panic and horror when the giant animal suddenly charges towards the vehicle

The camera briefly lost focus as one man exclaimed he was bleeding from the ordeal

It comes after in January terrified tourists in Sri Lanka had to run for their lives when an elephant destroyed their car after one of them attempted to ‘offer it food’.

The three-tonne animal attacked the Russian tourists, who were on a safari observing wild animals, and left them shouting for help.

The beast viciously rocked their Suzuki Every Wagon in an apparent attempt to tip it over, with two wheels coming off the ground as the family filmed themselves fleeing.

The elephant then used its trunk to tear off the door of the micro-van, seeking more fruit from inside, after one of the tourists inside the vehicle offered it food.

Two terror-stricken family members fled the Suzuki from the other side, fearing for their lives before the elephant retreated as another tourist vehicle approached the commotion and sounded its horn.

A warning shot was also heard being fired in an attempt to ward off the huge animal.

Among those fleeing was a boy aged 11, who had to escape without his shoes.

The elephant rams into the vehicle, breaking the window and jolting, the vehicle – before one tourist stuns the group with her unexpectedly calm reaction

The vehicle sped away to safety and the shards of glass could be seen scattered across the seats and the floor of the vehicle

The tourists could be heard telling the driver ‘just go’, fearing another charge

Shaken tourist Liliya Mikhailovskaya, from Kazan in South West Russia, said after the incident: ‘We almost lost our lives.

‘[We were] driving up to an elephant, a wild elephant. We will never forget this trip to Sri Lanka.

‘Just a couple of minutes earlier I was recording a video, completely unaware that a sweet feeding moment would turn into such chaos.

‘Now that’s another phobia added to the collection!’