Seven elephants killed, calf injured in India train crashAP, GUWAHATI, IndiaSeven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India’s northeastern state of Assam early yesterday, local authorities said. Train passengers take photographs of a dead elephant after it was hit by a train in Hojai district in Assam, India, yesterday. Around 200 passengers who were in the five derailed coaches have been moved to Guwahati in a different train,” Sharma said. 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. Wild elephants often stray into human habitations this time of year, when rice fields are ready for harvesting.
