MANGALURU: Two elephant calves, one 8 month previous and some other about 18 month previous, were discovered dead beside the railway tracks deep throughout the Shiradi Ghat woodland, 10 kms from Yedakumeri Railway station against Sakleshpur, on Monday morning.
Forest officials suspect that the calves will have been hit by way of a educate, most certainly items educate, late on Sunday night while they were looking to go the tracks close to a bridge or while straying beside the observe.
Hassan Deputy Conservator of Forests Shivaram Babu, beneath whose jurisdiction the incident took place, confirmed this incident saying that officials had visited the spot and had sent the carcasses for post-mortem. "We do not know what time the incident happened. The Sakleshpur Range Forest Officer was informed by the Yedakumeri station manager," he stated including that the station authentic will have been informed by way of a loco pilot of a passing educate after seeing the dead calves.
While one calf, 8 month previous, was discovered close to the tracks nearly at the bridge, the second one was discovered somewhat far away.
"We will establish a time frame of when the death occurred and based on that we will be able to find out which train hit those calves," Babu added. An FIR has been lodged and investigations are on, he added. Sources stated the web site of the incident was close to a curve and the loco pilot will have not sufficient time to use brakes before sighting the elephant calves to keep away from the accident.
Forest officials suspect that the calves will have been hit by way of a educate, most certainly items educate, late on Sunday night while they were looking to go the tracks close to a bridge or while straying beside the observe.
Hassan Deputy Conservator of Forests Shivaram Babu, beneath whose jurisdiction the incident took place, confirmed this incident saying that officials had visited the spot and had sent the carcasses for post-mortem. "We do not know what time the incident happened. The Sakleshpur Range Forest Officer was informed by the Yedakumeri station manager," he stated including that the station authentic will have been informed by way of a loco pilot of a passing educate after seeing the dead calves.
While one calf, 8 month previous, was discovered close to the tracks nearly at the bridge, the second one was discovered somewhat far away.
"We will establish a time frame of when the death occurred and based on that we will be able to find out which train hit those calves," Babu added. An FIR has been lodged and investigations are on, he added. Sources stated the web site of the incident was close to a curve and the loco pilot will have not sufficient time to use brakes before sighting the elephant calves to keep away from the accident.
Two elephant calves run over by train deep inside Sakleshpur Forest
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