A female elephant died on Friday after coming in front of a passenger train in the Kanika Forest Range under the Sundargarh Forest Division.
Sources said a herd of nine elephants had moved towards railway track while a six-year-old female elephant was hit by the Yeshvantpur-Tata Express, due to which the elephant was thrown to some distance and died on the spot.
The accident occurred in the Beheramunda-Julumbahal area. There was no damage to the train and the passengers.
A team of GRP and Sundargarh forest officials reached the spot and started investigation into the incident. A team of veterinary officials also reached the spot and conducted postmortem of the elephant’s body.