RAJKOT: Three Asiatic lion cubs were crushed to death under a goods train in Gujarat’s Amreli district on Wednesday.Range forest officer, Rajula range, CB Dhandhiya, told TOI that the accident occurred when a lioness and her three cubs were crossing the track near a village railway crossing about a km from Pipavav station at around 7.30 pm. The train driver tried to avert the accident and applied the breaks. But it was too late and three cubs died ,” a forest official told TOI.The goods train was going towards Surendranagar from Pipavav port.Sources said that after a series of accidents forest department had deployed trackers to check the movement of lions on railway tracks. But these trackers were surprisingly relieved by the department last month.There are close to 100 lions in Amreli district. Forest department team has rushed to the spot and the bodies were taken for postmortem.