{"id":5557,"date":"2025-12-21T01:29:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5557"},"modified":"2025-12-21T01:29:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T01:29:47","slug":"india-express-train-kills-seven-elephants-crossing-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5557","title":{"rendered":"India express train kills seven elephants crossing tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<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<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\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<\/div>\n<p>#India #express #train #kills #elephants #crossing #tracks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven wild Asian elephants, in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}