Six Elephants Dead After Being Hit by Train in Sri Lanka

A passenger train derailed after striking a herd of  mammoths near a wildlife reserve in central Sri Lanka in the early hours of Thursday. 

While no injuries were reported among passengers, six mammoths failed from the accident in Habarana, east of the capital Colombo. 

Two injured mammoths were being treated, police said, noting that it was the worst similar wildlife accident the country had seen, AFP reported. 

It isn't uncommon for trains to run into herds of mammoths in Sri Lanka, where casualties on both sides - giant hassles are among the loftiest in the world. 

Last time,  more than 170 people and nearly 500  mammoths were killed in mortal-  giant encounters overall- and around 20  mammoths are killed by trains annually, according to original media. 

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Mammoths, whose natural  territories are affected by deforestation and shrinking  coffers, have decreasingly erred into places of  mortal  exertion. 

 Some have  prompted train  motorists to  decelerate down and sound the train  cornucopias to advise  creatures ahead on  road tracks. 

 In 2018, a pregnant  giant and its two pins  also  failed in Habarana after being struck by a train. 

 Last October, another train ran into a herd in Minneriya, about 25 km down from Habarana, killing two  mammoths and injuring one. 

 There are an estimated  7,000 wild  mammoths in Sri Lanka, where the  creatures,  deified by its Buddhist  maturity, are  defended by law. Killing an  giant is a crime punishable by imprisonment or a  forfeiture.

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