A high-speed rail slammed into a herd of elephants, slaughtering seven and leaving one calf wounded in India Saturday.

As many as 100 elephants were crossing the tracks when the train’s engineer spotted the herd — but wasn’t able to pull the emergency brake in time, as the train plowed into several pachyderms, according to Indian Railways spokesman Kapinjal Kishore Sharma.

Five train cars derailed but miraculously none of the train’s 650 passengers were injured. The remaining trains continued on their journey, Indian railways said.

The crash occurred on a New Delhi-bound train in the Indian state of Assam, 78 miles south of its capital city of Guwahati, after originating in Mizoram, which borders Myanmar.

“We delinked the coaches which were not derailed, and the train resumed its journey for New Delhi. Around 200 passengers who were in the five derailed coaches have been moved to Guwahati in a different train,” Sharma told The Associated Press.

India has the largest population, 30,000, of wild elephants in the world, with one of the highest concentrations, about 7,000,  in Assam, accodding to the Wildlife Trust of India. 

There are only 50,000 Asian elephants left in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

Veterinarians performed autopsies on the dead elephants, and plans were made to bury them later Saturday.

Wild elephants frequently stray into human areas during rice harvesting season — November through December — in India, and at least 12 elephants have been killed by trains in Assam over the last five years.

India has 150 elephant corridors, which are land strips established to allow for elephant movement, according to NDTV. But the horrific crash site wasn’t one of them, Indian Railways told the Associated Press.

Roughly 500 people are killed by wild elephants in India each year, according to the Wildlife Trust of India.