Police say a man was killed after being struck by a train in Salmon Arm early Wednesday morning.
The Jan. 31 incident occurred on the railway tracks between Narcisse Street and Marine Drive, with Salmon Arm RCMP, CPKC Police Service, the Salmon Arm Fire Department and the B.C. Coroners Service responding.
鈥淎 male on the tracks was fatally impacted by a train,鈥� said Salmon Arm RCMP Staff Sgt. Scott West in a media release. 鈥淚nexplicably, the male did not leave the tracks as the train approached. At that juncture the collision was unavoidable despite the efforts of the crew to stop the heavily laden locomotive.鈥�
CPKC said the incident occurred around 3 a.m., and that the train moved off the scene at 8:30 a.m.
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