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Tracks turn jumbo killing fields [1]

Alipurduar, June 2: Tracks are turning elephant corridors into killing fields.

An elephant moving from one forest to another was mowed down by a speeding train in the Siliguri-Alipurduar Junction section on Monday night.

With the latest death, the number of elephants killed on tracks in this section since May 2008 has reached five.

Publication Date: 
03/06/2010
Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]
Tags:
Wildlife [3], Elephant [4], West Bengal [5], Siliguri [6], Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/telegraph-kolkata
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wildlife
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/elephant
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/siliguri