{"id":461320,"date":"2025-12-21T02:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461320\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T02:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:39:14","slug":"train-hits-elephant-herd-in-northeastern-india-kills-7-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461320\/","title":{"rendered":"Train hits elephant herd in northeastern India, kills 7 elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A high-speed passenger train plowed into a herd of elephants in northeastern India<\/a> early Saturday, killing seven elephants and injuring a calf.<\/p>\n

The Rajdhani Express, which was carrying around 650 passengers, was traveling through Assam when its driver spotted about 100 wild Asiatic elephants<\/a> crossing the tracks and applied the emergency brakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the effort, the train collided with several of the endangered animals, The Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Passengers on a train look at the carcass of an Asiatic wild elephant being removed from a railway track after a speeding train hit a herd of wild elephants in Changjurai village, east of Guwahati, India, Saturday.\u00a0 (AP Photo\/Anupam Nath)<\/p>\n

The impact caused the engine and five coaches to derail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

None of the train’s passengers<\/a>, who were traveling from Sairang in Mizoram state to New Delhi, were harmed in the incident, the AP reported.<\/p>\n

“We delinked the coaches which were not derailed, and the train resumed its journey<\/a> for New Delhi,” Indian Railways spokesman Kapinjal Kishore Sharma told the AP. “Around 200 passengers who were in the five derailed coaches have been moved to Guwahati in a different train.”<\/p>\n

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Railway staff, workers and police restore train service after a herd was struck by the Sairang-New Delhi Rajdhani Express in Hojai District, Assam, Saturday.\u00a0 (Anuwar Hazarika\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Veterinarians later conducted necropsies<\/a> on the elephants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They were scheduled to be buried later in the day Saturday, according to the AP.<\/p>\n

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A herd of wild elephants gathers near a field in search of food in Nagaon district, Assam, India, Nov. 21, 2025.\u00a0 (Anuwar Hazarika\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Assam is home to an estimated 7,000 wild Asiatic elephants, and train-related deaths have been an ongoing issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At least a dozen elephants have been killed on railway tracks in the state since 2020, AP reported.<\/p>\n

Asiatic elephants are considered endangered, and there are only an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 left in the wild, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sophia Compton is a Writer at Fox News Digital. Sophia was previously a business reporter covering finance, energy and tourism and has experience as a TV news producer. She graduated with a journalism degree in 2021 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A high-speed passenger train plowed into a herd of elephants…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2697,1567,159,67,132,68,1581,837,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-461320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-disasters","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wild-nature","15":"tag-wildlife","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115755245160150034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}