Boinda: A male bear was killed after being hit by a train at Krushnapur under Handapa police limits in Angul district on Talcher-Sambalpur track Thursday.
Sources said that the bear was crossing the track when a passenger train, heading towards Angul from Sambalpur, hit it, causing its death on the spot.
On being informed, forest department officials reached the spot and buried the carcass after post-mortem.
Animal lovers here alleged that besides bears and elephants, hundreds of animals, domestic and wild, are losing their lives to train accidents.
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