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| Two people have died after being struck by a freight train at a footpath crossing just outside Lincoln. | Two people have died after being struck by a freight train at a footpath crossing just outside Lincoln. |
| The tragedy occurred just before noon on Wednesday at a user-worked level crossing to the east of the city. The train was heading for Immingham Docks on Humberside. | |
| British Transport police (BTP) said the incident in the village of Cherry Willingham was reported at 11.57am and Lincolnshire police and East Midlands ambulance also rushed to the scene. | |
| A BTP spokesman said: "Both people have been pronounced dead at the scene. Officers are now working to establish the full circumstances of the incident, which is currently being treated as non-suspicious. | |
| "The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has been informed." |