Kind locals treated an injured cow that was hit by a train in India.

Footage shows volunteers from Atal Kamdhenu Gau Sewa Sansthan organisation checking the health of the animal lying on the side of the tracks in Madhya Pradesh on December 14.

They gave it some medicine and relocated to an animal centre.

One of the good Samaritans Gaurav Mishra said: 'It was a female mother cow, hit by a train on the Bandhwabara railway line.'

India has hundreds of thousands of cows roaming its streets.

It is party due to devout locals who follow Hindu customs, with cows regarded as sacred animals that cannot be eaten or slaughtered once they have stopped producing milk. The majority of states ban the sale or slaughter of cows.

Instead of dealing with the economic burden of keeping their spent cattle, many farmers let the beasts roam the streets - leading to chaos when the animals become agitated and turn their fury on humans.