Elephant killed by train in Assam; passengers safe | india news

An elephant was killed on Wednesday morning when the Guwahati-Dibrugarh Intercity Express hit a herd crossing the railway track in Titabor of Assam’s Jorhat district, police said.

“One coach of the train came off the tracks due to the impact of the accident. But since the train was going at a slow speed, it didn’t overturn and nothing happened to the passengers,” inspector Kalyan Gogoi, in-charge of Titabor police station, said.

Police said the incident happened around 4:30 am when a herd of elephants was trying to cross the railway track at Letekujan, nearly 311 km east from the state capital Guwahati.

Train services were affected for over three hours while the railway staff put the derailed wheels of the coach back on track.

Despite efforts by rail and forest authorities to prevent elephant deaths on tracks incidents of elephants getting killed by trains have continued in Assam. Sixteen pachyderms were killed in such accidents in 2016 and last year, the toll was 12.

In February this year, five elephants were killed when a passenger train hit a herd crossing the rail tracks in Hojai district of central Assam.

Five elephants, including a pregnant female, were killed in December last year when the Guwahati-Naharlagun Donyi Polo Express hit a herd crossing the tracks near Balipara in Sonitpur district.

Three weeks earlier, two more pachyderms were killed by a speeding Awadh Assam Express at Thakurkuchi, 19 km from Guwahati.

Wild elephants come out of forests around this time of the year in search of food and sometimes they get hit by trains while crossing tracks.

As per a 2011 census, there are 5,620 wild elephants in Assam, the highest among all the states.

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Female elephant run over by train while crossing tracks in Uttarakhand

A female elephant was found dead in the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand on Tuesday after being run over by a train, a forest official said.

Officials told IANS that a group of 17 elephants was crossing the rail tracks when the high-speed Dehradun-Kathgodam Express was passing by.

While foresters tried to alert the driver, he did not slow down the train, resulting in the death of the elephant.

Drivers of trains are expected to slow down while passing through the national park. But elephants continue to be hit and killed by trains.

The management of the forest reserve said a case will be filed against the train driver.


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Speeding train kills elephant in Rajaji Tiger Reserve

A female elephant was killed after being run over by a speeding train in Rajaji Tiger Reserve on Tuesday, a forest official said.
The 35-year-old elephant was part of a group of 17 elephants crossing rail tracks parallel to NH-58 in Himalayan colony at 12:05 am on Tuesday when the high-speed Dehradun-Kathgodam Express was passing by, the official said.
While forest staff tried to alert the train driver, he did not slow down the train, resulting in the death of the elephant.
The death comes despite claims of preventive measures being taken by the Rajaji Tiger Reserve authority and railways.
Park patrolling teams were on duty near the accident site and manually signalled the train driver to stop.
Park employee Roshanlal said they tried to aware the loco pilot by showing torch light as there were more than a dozen elephants in human habitat area, trying to cross the railway track.
Rajaji Tiger Reserve director Sanatan Sonkar said it was a shocking incident for which both the park management and railways has been working jointly to curb such incidents.
“We are investigating this matter and if found guilty, we will file case against the train driver and are also taking steps to lessen such accidents by putting up censors and camera traps,” he added.
Another park official, on condition of anonymity, said many times train drivers don’t follow the minimum speed limit and take precautions.


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Train kills elephant in Uttarakhand

Dehradun, June 26 : A female elephant was found dead in the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in Uttarakhand on Tuesday after being run over by a train, a forest official said. Officials told IANS that a group of 17 elephants was crossing the rail tracks when the high-speed Dehradun-Kathgodam Express was passing by.

While foresters tried to alert the driver, he did not slow down the train, resulting in the death of the elephant.

Drivers of trains are expected to slow down while passing through the national park. But elephants continue to be hit and killed by trains.

The management of the forest reserve said a case will be filed against the train driver.


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Elephant killed by train in Uttarakhand’s Tanda forests

The incident happened near Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP) close to the Nagla bypass at around 2 am, according to forest officials.


A four-year-old female elephant died after being hit by a locomotive on the Lalkuan-Bareilly track on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, according to forest officials.

Loco pilot Rajesh Kumar and assistant Uday Kumar had taken train’s engine from Lalkuaon to Pantnagar at about 2 am, when they saw the pachyderm near Central institute of medicinal and aromatic plants (CIMAP) close to the Nagla bypass, forest officials said.

Despite hitting the brakes, the locomotive, in full speed, hit the elephant, they said.

In the morning, local women saw the elephant’s carcass and informed villagers, who in turn alerted forest officials.

Kalyani Negi, divisional forest officer, Tarai Central, said veterinary doctors are being rushed to the spot for an autopsy of the elephant and other procedures.

B S Mehta, Tanda range officer, said, “The elephant calf might have come to the area in search of fodder.”

This is the third incident this year in which four elephant’s carcass have been killed by trains in Tanda forest range.

In March, a six-year-old elephant was killed at the same place of the Sunday accident. Two elephant calves were killed in April near Haldi railway station on Lalkuan-Rudrapur track after being hit by Ranikhet Express.

The Tanda range falls on the border of Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar and has good population of pachyderms.




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2 elephant carcasses found in Karnataka

MANGALURU: Two elephant calves – eight-month-old and another about 18-month-old, were found dead beside the railway tracks deep inside the Shiradi Ghat forest, 10 km from Yedakumeri railway station towards Sakleshpur in Karnataka, on Monday morning.

Forest officials suspect that the calves may have been hit by a train, probably goods train, late on Sunday night while they were trying to cross the tracks near a bridge or while straying beside the track.


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Elephant Dies After Being Hit By Train

The passenger train from Palakkad town Tiruchirapalli (Train No. 56712) hit the 25-year old elephant at around 5mph early in the morning around 7 am, no injuries were reported by any passengers.

The poor animal finally succumbed to his injuries a few hours later.

The elephant's body was removed by railroad workers at around 12.15 PM.

The elephant was constantly seen on the tracks during the last two weeks after a herd of five wild elephants came down from the forests in search of fodder and water.

The elephants are attracted to a nearby rice paddy fields which were ripe for harvest, the elephants are known to feed on them during harvest season.

Reportedly, the embankments on either side of the tracks are steep and unfortunately, the wild elephants are then trapped on the tracks when they see an approaching train.


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Goods train hit a female elephant crossing the track

A 20 year old female elephant sustained leg injury when a coal laden train hit the right leg of the back side in the early hours on Saturday at Kaunriapal under Sadar range her.

The injured elephants was in the herd which was passing the track.She was the last elephant to pass the track when the train hit the animalAssistant conservator of forest JN Dash said the injured elephant was hit by the train at about 4 AM .The injured elephant was rushed to nearby forest through the NH 55 affecting the traffic for some time.".

Mr Das said that elephant is seemed to be in a good condition.She will be given pain killer on Saturday. "We have asked doctors from Nandankanan to treat the injured animal.

In another incident one elephant coming out of her herd killed a 50 year old woman in village Kaunriapala under Sadar range this morning. It occurred in early morning when the woman had a face off with the herd in the village side.

Irate villagers detained some forest officials demanding action by forest department to chase away the elephant from their area.They later released them after being assured of steps .

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Elephant tramples 70-year-old woman to death in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district

An elephant trampled a 70-year-old woman to death at a village in Dhenkanal on Saturday morning, making her the sixth person to die in human-elephant conflict in the Odisha district this month.

Police identified the victim as Satyabati Swain of Kaurianpal village under Sadar forest range of Dhenkanal, located about 105 km northwest of state capital Bhubaneswar.

According to forest and wildlife officials, the elephant attacked Swain when she had gone to attend nature’s call.

On the other side of human-elephant conflict, a female jumbo was injured after being hit by a train while crossing railway tracks near Rasasingh in Dhenkanal on Friday night.

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4 elephants killed by speeding train in India

A HERD of four elephants including an infant has been mown down by a speeding train in eastern India, in the worst incident of its kind since 2012.

A freight train travelling through a forest known to be an elephant corridor in the state of Odisha slammed into the elephants in the early hours of Monday morning. In the past decade, at least 22 elephants have been killed on train tracks in the state, reported the Hindustan Times.

 The latest incident occurred some 20km away from the Sambalpur elephant reserve, with forest officials believing the animals had come from the park.

“Although there was no elephant movement in the area for the past three to four months, the railway authorities were duly informed to reduce train speed in that section,” said a representative of the local forest authorities, Sushant Kumar as quoted by The Hindu.

“Besides, they were also requested to follow guidelines including making continuous hooting along the stretch,” he said.

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Five Elephants Killed After Being Hit By Speeding Train In New Delhi, India

On Saturday February 10, five elephants were killed after being hit by a speeding train in New Delhi, India.

As the night train to Silchar approached the elephants who were crossing the tracks, a group of villagers waved their flashlights frantically in an attempt to alert the driver to slow down. However, by the time the driver saw what was in front of him and hit the emergency breaks, it was too late.

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Elephant hit by train dies

An elephant died after it was hit by a train in Lalkuan in Nainital district on Sunday. This is the second jumbo death on railway tracks in less than a month. Earlier, a tusker was killed after being hit by the Nanda Devi Express inside the Rajaji Tiger Reserve in February.
The death had prompted the state forest department to prepare a set of proposals to prevent elephant deaths on railway tracks between Haridwar and Dehradun. These included having forest guards onboard to alert locopilots, increasing patrolling time near tracks and taking steps for better coordination between forest staff and railway officials.

The tusker who died on Sunday was likely hit by the locomotive early morning. Parag Madhukar Dhakate, conservator of forests, western circle, Kumaon, said, “The deceased elephant is a 10-year-old male. We are investigating whether the train was following the prescribed speed.” The state forest department said that this was the 10th elephant to be hit by a train in the past 17 years in the state.

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Elephant run over by train

An elephant was run over by a train in the Lalkunwan area of Nainital district last evening. The tusker died on the spot. Villagers informed the forest authorities about the accident, following which officials reached the spot. The elephant sustained severe head injuries and its both tusks were broken. After a post-mortem examination, the elephant was buried.

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Speeding Train Plows Into Elephants in India, Killing 5 Animals

NEW DELHI — The night train to Silchar was moving fast — too fast, the authorities say.

As it chugged into a forested area of northeastern India on Saturday night, a group of villagers waved their flashlights frantically, urging the driver to slow down. He didn’t know why, but he soon found out.

Ahead in the darkness, a large herd of elephants was ambling across the railway tracks. When the train driver finally saw what was in front of him, he hit the emergency brake, railway officials said, but it was too late.

The 14-car passenger train plowed right into the herd. Two calves and two adult elephants were killed instantly, and an adult elephant that was badly injured died on Monday. Some local news reports said that several baby elephants had not even moved as the train approached, and that adult elephants had sought to protect them by surrounding them.

Indian forestry officials said the warnings had been ignored for a simple reason: The train was running 10 minutes late.

“The driver was trying to cover up the time,” said P. Sivakumar, a senior forestry officer in northern Assam, the state where the accident happened. The incident is now under investigation.


In some parts of India, especially in the northeast, it is quite common for elephants to pass through populated regions or to step across railway tracks — or even four-lane highways — in search of food. Many areas have been designated elephant corridors, where drivers are supposed to proceed with caution.

In the case over the weekend, the train operator was traveling above the speed limit of 30 kilometers, or about 20 miles, an hour, forestry officials said. Earlier in the day, the Forestry Department had sent several urgent notifications to railway operators that a large elephant herd was moving through the Habaipur area, about 250 kilometers north of Silchar, near India’s border with Bangladesh. The area is deep green on most maps, and a well-known refuge for elephants.

This episode is the latest in an unfortunate pattern. As recently as December, a train in Assam killed five adult elephants, including one that was pregnant.

But in India’s wildlife community, the latest accident seems to have reverberated more, adding to the sadness and outrage that has been building.

“The railways need to be held accountable,’’ said Prerna Singh Bindra, a conservationist and writer. “How come we have not learned our lessons?”

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Over 80 elephants killed every year due to human-elephant conflict

The main reasons of elephant deaths are electrocution, train accidents, poaching and poisoning, according to environment ministry data.

With increasing human-wildlife conflict, at least 80 elephants are killed every year in India on an average, totalling up to 655 deaths in the last eight years, environment ministry data showed.

The main reasons were electrocution, train accidents, poaching and poisoning.

The data comes just after the recently released Elephant Census 2017, which revealed that the population of Asian elephants—India's national heritage animal and an endangered and protected species—has declined in the last five years. As per the preliminary results of the Census, elephants numbered 27,312 across 23 states.

This means a decline of about 10% as the population has decreased by about 3,000, compared to the last census in 2012, when it was estimated at around 30,000 (29,391-30,711). In 2007, it was estimated at about 27,670 (27,657-27,682).

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According to environment ministry data seen by Mint, a total of 655 elephants were killed between 2009-10 and 2016-17. This translates into an average of about seven every month and one every four days.

Of them, poisoning killed 44, poaching 101, train accidents 120 and electrocution 390.

In the last eight years, the deadliest was 2010-11, when 106 were killed, followed by 105 in 2012-13 and 89 in 2009-10.

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