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This is just real odd. A possible bomb was found after a woman struck and killed by a train in Seattle.

The device had a fuse and resembled a small pipe bomb, and it was discovered after a 63-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe train struck a woman on the tracks near Carkeek Park, BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said.

“It’s an unknown object at this point. They haven’t definitively examined it,” Cheryl Bishop of the Seattle division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told msnbc.com.

The ATF and the FBI sent agents to the scene to help investigate.

The crew said the woman was walking in the same direction as the southbound train when for some reason she knelt down on the tracks, Melonas said.

The crew blew the whistle and applied the emergency brake, but the train, which was hauling containers of general merchandise, could not stop in time, Melonas said.

It was not known if the woman was carrying the device when she was struck.

It’s also not clear what she was doing on the tracks, which are also used by Amtrak passenger trains and Sounder regional commuter trains.