COLOMBO， Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Four baby elephants were killed when they were hit by a passenger train in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday， Police said.
The accident is termed as one of Sri Lanka's worst involving wild animals.
The baby elephants were walking towards a newly constructed railway line in Chettikulum， in the Vavuniya district when they were hit by the Colombo bound Thaleimannar Express train.
No passengers were injured in the accident.
A Sri Lanka Railway official told Xinhua that an investigation by the Railway and Wildlife Departments was underway and added that the accident took place in a spot which was not frequented by wild animals.
"The Wildlife Department together with the Sri Lanka Railways have been trying to identify paths where wild animals usually roam around. Along these routes trains usually reduce their speed and are very cautious. Wednesday's accident took place in an area where there have been no wild life movements，" the official said.
He added that the four baby elephants had been hurt when they suddenly moved on to the tracks while the train was crossing. One baby elephant had been dragged meters away.
Elephants are considered sacred in Sri Lanka and are legally protected. However， many are killed every year， mostly by angry villagers and farmers， when they trespass into human occupied space.
In 2011， three baby elephants were killed by a passenger train along the same track in a forest area， about 150 km north of Colombo.
In May this year， four elephants including two calves were killed by lightning in the country's north， which was one of the worst natural disasters involving elephants.
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The five holes spanning a distance of 1,000 meters were found in moorstone rocks in Yinshan Mountains in the regional capital Hohhot, said Wu Jiacai, archaeologist with Inner Mongolia Normal University.
Yinshan Mountains are famous for a large cluster of ancient rock paintings
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The 2-to-7-cm-deep holes, with diameters between 6 and 10 cm, form a string similar to a pearl necklace.
"When realized the holes were manmade, we began to investigate their meanings," Wu recalled.
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The rocks used were also different in color and texture. For example, "Mars" was carved on a red rock, while "Mercury" was located near a creek.
"The carving was in fact an astronomical recording by our ancestors," said Wu.
Historical information suggests Modu, leader of the Xiongnu
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The Xiongnu were a nomadic tribe which occupied a vast territory located in and around today's Mongolia and north China.
They founded their first empire in the third Century B.C. and were eventually conquered during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.).
"The carving not only shows the positional information of the five planets but also reveals characteristics of each, which will help us study ancient astronomic understanding," said Wu.
BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) received donations worth more than 250 million yuan (40.7 million U.S. dollars) for Ludian quake relief as of Thursday
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According to Zhao Baige, RCSC's executive vice president, the donations include about 178 million yuan in cash and about 72 million yuan worth of goods.
Nearly 40 percent of the donations have been channeled to the quake-hit region. They include 33.7 million yuan in cash and 63.4 million yuan worth of materials.
The RCSC has sent various relief items to the quake zone, including food, water, tents
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A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Ludian County in southwest China's Yunnan Province on August 3. It has killed more than 600 people and destroyed 80,000 homes in Ludian County and surrounding areas.
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Milan Police Commissioner Marcello Cardona has reported the thefts to the Interior Ministry as well as the DIGOS anti-terrorism police, the Carabinieri military police, and the Finance Guard, La Stampa newspaper reported.
Such reports have become the norm under new measures to keep track of stolen trucks
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The measures were introduced following terrorist attacks using stolen vehicles in France, Germany, and Spain.
The latest such attack, which killed 15 people including two Italian tourists, took place in the Spanish city of Barcelona last month.
Investigators do not exclude the vans may have been stolen for other motives, such as to carry out a robbery
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