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According to him, the notification of the fact was received around 7 pm
Tauragė Fire and Rescue Forces were dispatched to the scene, the information was handed over to Kaunas Ambulance Station, Tauragė County Police Station.
As Lina Banienė, a representative of the Tauragė police, later reported to BNS, the train collided with a woman who died at the scene.
“The identity, the age of a woman will be determined,” he said.
According to a police spokeswoman, a pre-trial investigation into the cause of death was launched into the incident.
Lithuanian Railways representative Tomas Digaitis told BNS that a freight train driver used both an audible signal and an emergency stop, but that the collision could not be avoided.
“The driver saw a distant woman near the rails while driving, when a few hundred meters away they left, the woman got on the rails talking on the phone,” he said.
According to the representative of the Lithuanian Railways, while the police are working on the site, freight train traffic in this section has been temporarily suspended.
