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A Royal Bengal Tiger was run over by a train passing through forested area in Falakata in West Bengals in Jalpaiguri District.
Falakata (West Bengal), June 19 : A Royal Bengal Tiger was run over by a train passing through forested area in Falakata in West Bengal's in Jalpaiguri District.
The tiger, measuring five-and-a-half feet head to tail was hit by the speeding train on Monday, and was thrown clear off the tracks by the impact.
The animal has been taken to the nearby Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary for a post-mortem.
Many elephants and smaller wild animals have been hit by trains along this particular stretch of railway tracks, which pass through lush forest area.
India has half of the world's surviving tigers, but conservationists say the country is losing the battle to save the big cats.
There were about 40,000 tigers in India a century ago, but decades of poaching had cut their number to about 3,700, according to a count conducted in 2001 and 2002.
Early results from a tiger census in India have indicated the population of the endangered cats was drastically lower than previously assumed.
ANI
