Pratiksha Ramkumar, TNN May 3, 2013
CHENNAI: A deer was run over by a train near the Saidapet suburban railway station late Thursday night.
The animal, suspected to be around four-years-old, was trying to cross the railway track at around midnight, when one of the last EMU trains crushed it to death. Police suspect that the deer could have strayed away from Raj Bhavan. The Raj Bhavan sits inside a sprawling green campus and has a sizeable deer population.
The animal was found on the South side of the station by the railway police force (RPF), who gave up trying to rescue it, as it seemed to have died on the spot. "It did not seem to breathe, it was like a carcass," said sub inspector Maharajan of the RPF. Police authorities, took the body back to the Saidapet station and handed it over to forest department officials on Friday morning.
The forest department did not confirm the possibility of a post mortem being done on the animal.
Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-03/chennai/39008024_1_railway-track-rpf-forest-department
CHENNAI: A deer was run over by a train near the Saidapet suburban railway station late Thursday night.
The animal, suspected to be around four-years-old, was trying to cross the railway track at around midnight, when one of the last EMU trains crushed it to death. Police suspect that the deer could have strayed away from Raj Bhavan. The Raj Bhavan sits inside a sprawling green campus and has a sizeable deer population.
The animal was found on the South side of the station by the railway police force (RPF), who gave up trying to rescue it, as it seemed to have died on the spot. "It did not seem to breathe, it was like a carcass," said sub inspector Maharajan of the RPF. Police authorities, took the body back to the Saidapet station and handed it over to forest department officials on Friday morning.
The forest department did not confirm the possibility of a post mortem being done on the animal.
Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-05-03/chennai/39008024_1_railway-track-rpf-forest-department
