Railway posed biggest threat to elephants in Odisha in 2012
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With five elephants and a foetus were killed as a running train ran over a herd of elephants crossing the railway line, on 30 December 2012, the number of death of elephants in train accidents, in 2012 only, went up to 11 which is the highest in a year in last five years. Even though poaching and electrocution, deliberate and accidental, have been considered to be bigger threats to the jumbo animal, running trains emerged as another major threat to the elephant population of Odisha, in 2012.
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