Incidents of train collisions between Coimbatore and Kanjikode and the death of elephants are taking place continuously. As part of this, a female elephant trying to cross the railway line near Pannimadai railway gate near Palakkad, Kerala, from Thiruvananthapuram this morning (May 7) Chennai The “Chennai Mail” express train was hit. In this, the injured female elephant tried to move with the injury.
But unable to move, it fell into a pit nearby and died miserably. The Palakkad Forest Department rushed to the spot on the information related to this and are conducting an investigation.
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In the preliminary investigation of the Palakkad Forest Department, it has been confirmed that the deceased female elephant is 25 years old and died after being hit by a train. Meanwhile, the forest department is engaged in the operations of recovering the dead elephant from the pit and conducting the post-mortem examination.
Last May, a female elephant was injured in a train collision at Kottakkadu in the same area.
So far, more than 35 elephants have died due to a train collision between Coimbatore Madhukarai and Palakkad.
