Twenty cows were today run over by a goods train on Ambala-Saharanpur rail section near Ambala Cantt, police said.
While 20 of them died on the spot, two more sustained major injuries, they said.
The cows, owned by a migrant shepherd belonging to Rajasthan, were grazing on the rail track near Durala village when the train ran over them, a police official said.
Following the incident, the train halted there for sometime, he said, adding that the matter was being probed.