An unhoused man was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Oakland on Tuesday as city officials were clearing out a nearby encampment, city officials said.
Crews were removing an encampment near Union Pacific Railroad property at 37th Avenue and E. 9th Street just before 9:40 a.m. when a city employee saw a man standing near the tracks just before he was fatally struck, according to spokespeople from the city of Oakland and Amtrak.
The man who died was not a resident of the encampment being removed, but was recognized by city employees as a transient resident of other nearby encampments, a city spokesperson said. The man’s identity was not immediately released…