Train ‘made contact’ with person at east Winnipeg crossing

Police were sent to a railway crossing in east Winnipeg after a train ‘made contact with a person’ Monday evening.

Winnipeg Police Service officers arrived at the intersection of Munroe Avenue and Prevette Street at about 6:10 p.m. to help Canadian Pacific Kansas City police with an investigation, a WPS spokesperson said.

A CPKC spokesperson confirmed one of their trains “made contact with a person” along the tracks in the area and that its police service is investigating. The train moved on from the area shortly after.