SEATTLE (Reuters) ? Authorities investigating the death of a woman struck by a train in Seattle on Thursday found a "bomb-type device" in the same area, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway spokesman said.
A Seattle police bomb squad responded to the scene and were examining the possible explosive, which resembles a pipe bomb and has a fuse, Burlington Northern spokesman Gus Melonas told Reuters.
Seattle police confirmed in a brief statement that a suspicious device had been discovered near the woman's body and said they were working to render it safe.
Melonas said it was not yet clear if there was any connection between the woman, who was not immediately identified by authorities, and the device.
Melonas said a Burlington Northern freight train headed for Tacoma from Chicago struck the woman at about 9 a.m., near a Seattle park with a pedestrian overpass.
He said the train's operators sounded its whistle and went into an emergency braking operation when the woman was spotted near the tracks but were unable to stop in time.
"The subject appeared to be walking away from the rail line and for some reason knelt down at the last moment," Melonas said.
He said the woman's death marked the fourth fatality on Seattle area tracks since August 5.
The tracks, which are used by 40 trains daily on a line that serves as a main connection to Canada, was shut down until further authorization.
(Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Jerry Norton)
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