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A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed.

Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a feast of fruit for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece center, reputedly the world's first care home for destitute pachyderms.