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Rail claims 19 halts to save jumbos [1]

Alipurduar/Siliguri, Sept. 30: Railway staff have spotted wild elephants close to the tracks and stopped trains 19 times since September 22 when seven jumbos were mowed down by a speeding goods train in Banarhat, the Northeast Frontier Railway has claimed.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Telegraph (Kolkata) [2]
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Rail Transport [3], Wildlife [4], Elephant [5], Jalpaiguri (D) [6], West Bengal [7]
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