{"id":244091,"date":"2024-07-11T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=244091"},"modified":"2024-07-11T00:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:33:21","slug":"elephant-hit-by-speeding-train-in-assam-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/11\/elephant-hit-by-speeding-train-in-assam-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant hit by speeding train in Assam, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morigaon, Jul 10 (PTI) An adult male elephant died after a speeding train hit the animal near Jagiroad Railway Station in Assam&#8217;s Morigaon district on Wednesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pachyderm, who along with another elephant got separated from the herd, was hit by the Silchar-bound Kanchanjunga Express at Tegheria, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other elephant managed to cross the tracks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Railway personnel and locals removed the carcass from the tracks and train services resumed, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was no disruption or delay in train services, they said, adding, veterinarians have reached the spot to conduct post-mortem examination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Assam has the second-highest elephant population in the country after Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morigaon, Jul 10 (PTI) An adult male elephant died after a speeding train hit the animal near Jagiroad Railway Station in Assam&#8217;s Morigaon district on Wednesday, officials said. The pachyderm, who along with another elephant got separated from the herd, was hit by the Silchar-bound Kanchanjunga Express at Tegheria, they said. The other elephant managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}