Two elephants killed in seperate incidents in Assam

An elephant was killed after being hit by a train and a calf died after falling into a deep drain in Assam, officials said on Tuesday.

While the train hit occurred at Behali in Sonitpur district, the elephant calf died at Mariani in Jorhat, they said.

The five-month-old calf died after it fell into a drain at Jungle Line in Rangajan area on Tuesday morning, forest official Biswajit Doley said.

Doley said the calf was part of a herd of 40-50 jumbos that had come out of nearby Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in search of food.

The drain was dug by tea garden authorities to erect a fence in the area, Doley added.

In the other incident on Monday night, an adult elephant was killed after being hit by a Guwahati-bound passenger train near Behali, officials said.

The jumbo had come out of a nearby jungle in search of food, they said.

Movement of trains was not impacted due to the incident, they added. On Monday night, three elephants were killed while they were crossing the tracks in West Bengal's Alipurduar district.

The incident took place in Rajabhatkhawa forest which is situated beside Buxa Tiger Reserve in the northern region of the state.

The Rajabhatkhawa-Kalchini section where the accident happened is not covered by the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) meant to avert such collisions, a senior official of the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) said.The incident happened when the empty goods train was going from Alipurduar to Siliguri, he said.

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