A herd stop: Train kills 3 rare bison in Poland

WARSAW: Three wild European bison died on Sunday morning after being hit by a train in Poland’s vast UNESCO-listed Bialowieza Forest in the east, the local police said. According to a police spokesman, a herd of Europe’s largest mammals, whose male specimens can reach 900 kilograms (nearly 2,000 pounds), crossed onto the train tracks as a locomotive carrying some 50 passengers between Bialystok and Warsaw was steaming ahead. “No passenger was injured but three animals perished in this accident, which happened at 7:00 am, near the village of Witowo,” spokesman Konrad Karwacki said.

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