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

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.

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

Six wild elephants were killed when a passenger train collided with a herd near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, a wildlife ...

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