The train was running at its peak speed of nearly 55 km per hour when the accident took place.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 28 June 2015.
There was no human casualties, neither any derailment of the train but, the front part of the engine was badly damaged due to the impact. The train had dragged bodies of the antelopes for several hundred metres. While a total of 14 nilgais were killed, many others were stuck under the train's engine for hours before they could be rescued by Railways' quick reaction team.
The stretch of tracks had to be cleared of the dead animals and, as a result, there was delay of around one hour for other trains on the route.
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