A 71-year-old woman is dead after police say she was hit by a VIA Rail passenger train in the city's east end Tuesday afternoon.

It happened just before 4 p.m. near Lauzon Parkway, between Catherine Street and Lauzon Line.

In an email to CBC News, a spokesperson for Windsor police said "the incident appears accidental."

"A preliminary investigation determined the woman attempted to cross the train tracks and was hit by an oncoming locomotive," police said in a separate statement.

A woman, 71, was struck and killed by a VIA train in Windsor Tuesday afternoon. Police say it appears to have been an accident. (Kathleen Saylors/CBC)

VIA Rail confirmed on Tuesday the train involved was carrying 63 passengers and no one on board was injured.

"Our thoughts, of course, are with those affect

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