{"id":517584,"date":"2022-08-29T10:19:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T04:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=517584"},"modified":"2022-08-29T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T05:27:28","slug":"loco-pilots-timely-action-saves-lives-of-12-elephants-in-jharkhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/loco-pilots-timely-action-saves-lives-of-12-elephants-in-jharkhand\/","title":{"rendered":"Loco pilots\u2019 timely action saves lives of 12 elephants in Jharkhand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timely action by two loco pilots saved the lives of a dozen elephants including calves in Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Jharkhand, officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Howrah-Jabalpur Shaktipunj Express was bound for West Bengal through a dense forest in PTR at a speed of around 70 kmph around 6 PM on Friday when suddenly the locomotive pilots noticed a herd of elephants crossing the tracks between Chipadohar and Hehegara railway stations, they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoco pilot A K Vidyarthi and I swiftly pulled the emergency brake and the train stopped around 60 metres from the herd,\u201d Rajnikant Choubey, assistant loco pilot, told news agency PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timely action by two loco pilots saved the lives of a dozen elephants including calves in Palamu Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Jharkhand, officials said on Saturday. The Howrah-Jabalpur Shaktipunj Express was bound for West Bengal through a dense forest in PTR at a speed of around 70 kmph around 6 PM on Friday when suddenly the locomotive pilots noticed a herd of elephants crossing the tracks between Chipadohar and Hehegara railway stations, they said. \u201cLoco pilot A K Vidyarthi and I swiftly pulled the emergency brake and the train stopped around 60 metres from the herd,\u201d Rajnikant Choubey, assistant loco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}