Elephant track on train NewTadka

SNAPPED! When an elephant almost got hit by a train
These startling images show an elephant escaping being hit by a train by a whisker -- as it crosses the tracks perilously close to an oncoming train.

The series of images highlight the danger elephants in the Indian forest face after a train line was built that cuts straight through the forest.

Dozens of elephants are killed every year after being hit by trains -- which resulted in a speed limit being introduced for trains in a bid to save lives of elephants.

In the past five years, at least 26 elephants have been killed and scores more injured by trains on the stretch of track near the Nepal border, according to wildlife officials
We all know that elephants are very useful animals. They are used to transport people, they are often poached for their tusks – made of precious ivory.

However, in Assam, the police took the unusual route of using elephants to evict hundreds of people living illegally in a protected forest area in the country’s remote north-east. 

Elephants were called in to the 30-square-mile Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary to tear down almost 100 houses, which have been constructed illegally. According to a 2014 forestry department survey, about 6,000 people built homes inside the wildlife sanctuary at 24 locations. 

Local people hurled rocks at police who used bulldozers and the elephants in a show of force in Amchang wildlife sanctuary in Assam
This is not the first time that authorities have used elephants for demolition. Authorities used elephants in 2016, when they removed 300 encroaching houses from the Kaziranga National Park rhino sanctuary??