KOLKATA - A SPEEDING goods train crushed seven elephants to death in eastern India after the animals tried to rescue two calves that got stuck in the tracks, conservation officials said on Thursday.
'Five elephants died immediately on the track while two others succumbed to their injuries on Thursday morning,' said Atanu Raha, West Bengal's chief forest conservator.
The adults had crowded around the stricken calves to protect them when they were hit. The two calves were among the dead. Traffic was suspended overnight and the surviving members of the herd were still at the scene in the morning, watching over the dead and injured, he added.
The train was travelling at 70 kilometres an hour when the speed limit was restricted to a maximum of 40 kph.
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