Three baby elephants were killed when they were hit by a passenger train in Sri Lanka yesterday The trios were crossing the tracks in a forested area near Ambanpola, 150 km Colombo, when they were struck by a passenger train bound for the north of considered sacred in Sri Lanka, capital. Elephants are animals are als but they increasingly clash with farmers as habitat becomes scarce and killed on killed by trains and high-voltage power lines. At least 100 elephants are the island each year, mostly by farmers, while marauding elephants raiding villages also claim the lives of about 50 people annually.