PAMELIA, N.Y. (AP) — A staff sergeant at Fort Drum has been identified as the person who was struck and killed by a train in northern New York over the weekend.

Investigators said Monday that 35-year-old Joshua Thomas of Evans Mills was walking on the Route 37 railroad overpass in the Jefferson County town of Pamelia (puh-MEEL'-yuh) when he was struck around 2:45 a.m. Saturday.

Thomas was pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident remains under investigation but investigators say Thomas' death is considered accidental.

[STORY BY: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

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