In West Bengal, seven elephants were killed and one injured when a speeding goods train hit the animals while they were crossing the railway tracks near Binnaguri in Jalpaiguri district. Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife) Sunita Ghatak said, five elephants were killed on the spot on Wednesday night, while two others succumbed to their injuries yesterday. She said, a herd of elephants was crossing the railway tracks while going from Moraghat forest to Diana forest, when two baby elephants got trapped on the tracks. When other elephants came to the rescue of the baby elephants, a goods train which was passing through at that time hit them, killing five elephants on the spot and injuring three.The West Bengal Forest Department has filed an FIR against Railways for death of the elephants. State Forest Minister Ananta Roy said in Kolkata that the goods train which rammed into herd of elephants was running with high speed than stipulated for plying in the elephant corridor in North Bengal. State government has also sought the intervention of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and Forest and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to stop recurrence of such incident.