Sri Lanka Zug was derailed after he had hit elephant – world

A Srilankian passenger train was derailed on Thursday after moving to an elephant family without passengers being injured, but the police said six animals that were killed in the worst accident on the island.

The express train drove near a wildlife protection area in Habarana, about 180 kilometers east of the capital Colombo when he crossed the herd before dawn.

“The train was derailed, but there were no victims among the passengers,” said the police, adding that wild animal authorities treated two elephants who survived the crash.

Videos that were shot after the accident showed an elephant who stood next to the tracks over an injured boy, with the tips of their tribes curled together.

The killing or damage to elephants is a criminal offense in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild elephants, the animals being viewed as a national treasure, which is partly due to their importance in Buddhist culture.

Two elephant babies and her pregnant mother were killed in a similar accident in the same area in September 2018.

Since then, the authorities ordered the train driver to observe speed boundaries to minimize the injuries to elephants when they went through areas where they cross the lines.

The deaths of elephants come days after the authorities were concerned about the growing effects of conflicts between humans and elephants, since the old habitat of animals is increasingly intervened.

Farmers who scratch their livelihood often defend themselves against elephants who attack their harvests.

The deputy environmental minister Anton Jayakody told AFP On Sunday, 150 people and 450 elephants were killed in clashes in 2023.

This is an increase in the previous year when 145 people and 433 elephants were killed according to official data.

Only these two years are more than a tenth of the island’s elephants.

But Jayakody said that he was confident that the government could find solutions.

“We plan to introduce several barriers – these can include electrical fences, trenches or other deterrent – to make wild elephants more difficult to stray in villages,” said Jayakody.

In a study last year it was found out how Asian elephants mourn and bury their dead calves, in a report in which the behavior of animals contains that are reminiscent of human burial rites.

Elephants are known for their social and cooperative behavior, but according to the study in the Journal of Dreated Taxa, the calf burial “briefly examined in African elephants” in African elephants – with their smaller Asian cousins.

Asian elephants are recognized by the international Union to preserve nature as endangered.

An estimated 26,000 of them live in the wild, mainly in India with some in Southeast Asia and survived an average of 60-70 years outside of captivity.