Although the train driver spotted the hundred-strong herd crossing the track and used the train’s emergency brakes, some of the elephants<\/a> were still hit.<\/p>\n Veterinarians carried out autopsies on the dead elephants which will be buried later in the day.<\/p>\n Image: The Rajdhani Express train had been traveling from Mizoram state, which borders Myanmar, to the national capital of New Delhi.<\/p>\n The accident site is a forested area in Assam. Railway tracks in the state are often frequented by elephants, but Indian Railways said in a statement the accident location wasn’t a designated elephant corridor.<\/p>\n Despite the impact, passengers in the carriages which didn’t derail resumed their journey towards New Delhi.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Around 200 passengers who were in the five derailed coaches were moved to Guwahati in a different train.<\/p>\n Speeding trains hitting wild elephants is not rare in Assam, which is home to an estimated 7,000 wild Asiatic elephants, one of the highest concentrations of the pachyderm in India.<\/p>\n Since 2020, at least a dozen elephants have been killed by speeding trains across the state.<\/p>\n Wild elephants often stray into human habitations this time of year, when rice fields are ready for harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-speed train carrying 650 people has collided with and killed seven wild Asiatic elephants and injured a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-201766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skynews-elephant-train-india_7115657.jpg\")
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\n The train was carrying 650 people when it collided with elephants from the herd. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n
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