Alert loco pilots halt goods train, save 2 lions on track

They were alerted about presence of lions on tracks by two trackers; incident took place at around 5.30 am on the Pipavav-Rajula section

Two alert loco pilots of a goods train saved the lives of two lions that had wandered onto a railway track in Gujarat's Amreli district in the early hours of Monday, an official said.

In the last few years, lions have either died or seriously hurt on the railway line connecting Pipavav Port with north Gujarat.

The incident occurred around 5.30 am on the Pipavav-Rajula section where loco pilot Vivek Verma and assistant loco pilot Rahul Solanki were piloting a goods train, the Western Railway's Bhavnagar division stated in a release.