US EditionHigh-Speed Passenger Train Kills 7 Elephants Crossing Railway Tracks in Northeast India
- Early Saturday the Sairang-New Delhi Rajdhani Express struck a herd in Assam's Hojai district, killing seven wild Asiatic elephants and injuring one calf while derailing five coaches and the engine.
- Railway and forest officials said the herd suddenly appeared, and the loco pilot applied emergency brakes but could not stop amid heavy fog at a non-designated elephant corridor.
- Railway crews delinked undamaged coaches, accommodated passengers in vacant berths, and the shortened Rajdhani Express resumed its journey as senior Lumding Division officials and accident relief teams reached the site.
- Helpline numbers 0361-2731621 / 2731622 / 2731623 were activated at Guwahati railway station, and veterinarians carried out autopsies with burial planned near the site.
- This incident adds to repeated train–elephant collisions in Assam, with MoEFCC records showing 186 elephants killed on railway tracks over 10 years and at least a dozen killed by speeding trains since 2020.
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Since 2020, at least a dozen elephants have been killed by speeding trains across India's Assam state.
7 elephants killed by train accident in India
A passenger train smashed into a herd of elephants in India’s northeast, killing seven animals on the spot, officials said Saturday. No travellers were injured in the accident in Assam state, home to more than 4,000 of the roughly 22,000 wild elephants in India. Senior Assam police official V.V. Rakesh Reddy told AFP that seven jumbos were killed, and one elephant sustained an injury. Five coaches of the train, which was headed to New Delhi from…
A passenger train hit a herd of elephants in northeastern India, killing seven animals on the spot but not causing any injuries among the...
Assam: Seven elephants die after being hit by train, no passengers injured
Seven elephants were killed and one injured after a herd was hit by a train in Assam’s Hojai district early on Saturday, a forest officer told Scroll.No passengers were injured in the incident.Rohini Ballave Saikia, who was on his way to site, said that the engine and five coaches of the Sairang-New Delhi Rajdhani Express derailed in the collision.The Northeast Frontier Railway said that the train collided with the herd at 2.17 am in the Jamunam…
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