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Woman Dies After Being Hit By Red Line Train, Police Say

By Kelly Bauer | October 1, 2016 1:08pm | Updated on October 3, 2016 8:29am
 A Saturday morning incident along the Red Line was possibly a suicide, police said.
A Saturday morning incident along the Red Line was possibly a suicide, police said.
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CHICAGO — A woman was killed in an incident on the Red Line Saturday morning, officials said.

At 7:40 a.m., a woman, thought to be in her 70s, was hit by a northbound Red Line train at the Addison platform, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

The woman was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital and was pronounced dead, Lemmon said.

The incident appeared to be a suicide, police said.

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