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Elefant, who was killed on the train in Sri Lanka

Colombo – A train in Sri Lankan Express killed an elephant and was derived on Tuesday, although security measures after the country's worst wildlife railway accident were introduced on the same route three months ago. According to local officers, the young wild elephant, who crossed the route near Habarana, said of the same train, which was involved in the accident on February 20, in which seven elephants were killed. After this crash, the officials led speed limits for trains that drove through elephant habitats.

No passengers were injured in the accident, which occurred about 110 miles east of the capital Colombo.

The railway authorities said that an investigation was underway, and the engineers tried to bring the Colombo-Batticaloa train back on the track after the crash before dawn.

In the past, the authorities had announced changes to the bending of schedules and efforts to extinguish shrubs from both sides of the route in order to improve the visibility of drivers to give them more time to avoid being made.

Wildlife officials said 139 elephants of trains were killed in the past 17 years because the authorities collect such data.

A sign warns the train operators for the presence of wild elephants near the town, where a passenger train on February 20, 2025 on February 20, killed six elephants in Minneriya, Sri Lanka.

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The government has also announced that 1,195 people and 3,484 elephants have been killed on the island due to the deteriorating conflict between humans and elephants due to the deteriorating conflict in the past ten years.

The killing or damage to elephants is a criminal offense in Sri Lanka, which has an estimated 7,000 wild elephants – partly because of its importance in Buddhist culture.

However, the murders remain because desperate farmers have to struggle with elephants who attack their harvests and destroy their livelihood.

Many elephants were shot or poisoned by electric shock, shot or poisoned. Sometimes explosive fruits are used to mutilate the animals, which often leads to painful deaths.

India, which has a wild elephant population more than twice as large as Sri Lanka, also deals with regular Zugydermollisions. India has lost around 200 elephants in the past decade to train accidents alone, and this is in addition to a high number of deaths from poaching and accidental power failures.

The Indian government has introduced measures to limit train speeds in special elephant corridors, but activists say that the rules are often poorly enforced.

At the beginning of this year, the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu was the first to start artificial intelligence and a mechanical learning defender surveillance system to prevent elephant deaths on railways.

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