BART train kills 2 workers near San Francisco

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BART train kills 2 workers near San Francisco

(CNN) -- An out-of-service Bay Area Rapid Transit train struck and killed two workers on a section of track northeast of San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, the transit authority said.

The employees were making track inspections near the Walnut Creek station, BART said in a statement. One was an employee and the other was a contractor. Their names were not immediately released.

Paul Oversier, an operations official with BART, told reporters that the two were looking into a possible slight dip in the rail.

The train was on a routine maintenance run with an experienced operator at the controls, but at the time of the incident, it was being run in automatic mode under computer control, BART said in its statement.

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Full article here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/19/us/california-bart-train-deaths/index.html