A passenger train has hit an elephant herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka and killed six of the animals.

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A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed Thursday after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island's worst such wildlife accident, police said.

At least six elephants were killed when a passenger train hit a herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, an official said ...

A train collided with elephants on Sri Lanka. Six animals died in the "worst wildlife accident the country has ever seen", according to the police.

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