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Investigators unsure which train hit man

By: Staff Writer

Tuesday, Jun. 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM | Comments: 0

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Brandon Police Service members and Canadian Pacific railway workers and a medical examiner talk at the scene of a fatal incident involving a CP train at the rail-yards just east of the First Street Bridge in Brandon late Monday evening. A sheet covering a body is seen in the background.

A 24-year-old man was found dead on the tracks in Brandon last night, but police are still working to figure out when he died.

A Canadian Pacific Railway crew spotted the man's body at about 9:15 p.m. on Monday, just east of the First Street Bridge, on the CPR main line.

The crew, on a westbound train, said that the man was obviously dead, and believed he had been hit by a train.

However police say that their particular train was probably not responsible for the man's death. They are still working to figure out what train may have hit the man, when it happened, and which direction of travel it was heading in.

The Brandon Police Service, Canadian Pacific police and Canadian Pacific Rail are continuing to investigate.

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