{"id":358844,"date":"2025-12-21T02:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:31:07","slug":"india-express-train-kills-seven-elephants-crossing-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358844\/","title":{"rendered":"India express train kills seven elephants crossing tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Seven wild Asian elephants, including calves, were killed when a high-speed train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in north-eastern India, local officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They say another calf was injured in the incident early on Saturday in Hojai district, Assam state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Northeast Frontier Railway says the train driver spotted dozens of elephants and used the emergency brakes &#8211; but some animals were still hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Five carriages derailed after the collision, but no injuries were reported among passengers and staff on the Delhi-bound express. Train cancellations and diversions were reported in the area during the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The killed elephants were later examined by veterinarians and buried.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Assam has one of the biggest elephant populations in India, with nearly 6,000 animals recorded in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Local railway tracks are often crossed by elephant herds &#8211; but Saturday&#8217;s incident happened at a location that was not a designated elephant corridor, the Northeast Frontier Railway says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven wild Asian elephants, including calves, were killed when a high-speed train collided with a herd crossing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-358844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}