At least six elephants were killed in Sri Lanka after an express train got derailed after ramming into a herd near a wildlife reserve in the early hours of Thursday. The Batticaloa-Colombo express ...

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

The express train was traveling near a wildlife reserve at Habarana, some 180 kilometers east of the capital Colombo when it hit the herd crossing the tracks before dawn. "The train derailed ...