Three More Elephants Mowed Down by Same Train: Sri Lanka

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EXPRESS TRAIN MOWS DOWN THREE MORE ELEPHANTS

 

Three more wild elephants including two calves were mowed down by the

Colombo bound express train at Kitulkotte in Kantale yesterday

morning, raising this year's death toll of wild elephants to 71....

http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/08/25/front/5.asp

 

 

SRI LANKA RAILWAY AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT CLAIM THREE MORE LIVES OF

ELEPHANTS

 

.....Sri Lanka's dwindling elephant population has lost 74 members

within the first eight months of this year alone. Another elephant was

killed and two were injured by the same train within this month in the

same area, an elephant corridor in short of signboards for train

engine drivers....

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_07/August25144648SL.html