A sub-adult female elephant was knocked down and killed by a train between Gulma and Sevoke in the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary area in Darjeeling district of north Bengal late on Monday night.
Died on the spot
“The elephant, which was in a herd of about 35, was dragged for nearly 100 metres by the engine and died on the spot,” Kanchan Banerjee, range warden, squad I, Sukna, told
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