Key Highlights
- A high-speed passenger train plowed into a herd of elephants in northeastern India early Saturday, killing seven elephants and injuring a calf.
- The Rajdhani Express, which was carrying around 650 passengers, was traveling through Assam when its driver spotted about 100 wild Asiatic elephants crossing the tracks and applied the emergency brakes.
- Despite the effort, the train collided with several of the endangered animals, The Associated Press reported.
- MOUNTAIN LION ATTACKS 4-YEAR-OLD WALKING WITH FAMILY AT WASHINGTON'S OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK 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, on Saturday.
- (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) The impact caused the engine and five coaches to derail.
