High-speed passenger train kills 7 elephants crossing railway tracks in northeast India
Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India’s northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local authorities said.
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The train driver spotted the herd of about 100 elephants and used the emergency brakes, but the train still hit some of the animals, Indian Railways spokesman Kapinjal Kishore Sharma told The Associated Press.
Five train coaches and the engine derailed following the impact, but there were no human casualties, Sharma said.
Veterinarians carried out autopsies on the dead elephants, which were to be buried later in the day.