2 elephants run over by train in Odisha, railways and forest officials play blame game

2 elephants run over by train in Odisha, railways and forest officials play blame game
Forest officials blamed the loco pilot and said that though railways was intimated about the movement of an elephant herd, the train was running at a high speed when it hit the elephants.
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By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: two elephants were killed after being hit by a parcel van near Mahipani in Sundargarh district in the wee hours of Thursday.
Sources said the mishap took place at about 1.30 am when an elephant herd was crossing the railway tracks and the speeding train hit two female jumbos on the Down line between Bhalulata-Jaraikela under South Eastern Railway (SER) division.

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