An adult female elephant including two elephants calves were killed after being hit by a train near the Navakkarai railway track on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border, the District Forest Officer said on Friday.
An express train from Kerala to Coimbatore had passed the tracks before the incident, the forest official said.
Forest Department officials rushed to the spot and have begun investigations on the cause of the incident.
Further details are awaited.
( With inputs from ANI )
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