Light-rail death still being investigated

February 22, 2011 at 3:17AM

Investigators offered little new information Monday about the death of a man who was struck at a south Minneapolis light-rail train station Sunday evening.

A Metro Transit spokesman said video of the incident at the Veteran Affairs station platform is available but he did not know if it showed clearly what had happened. The victim's identity was not released Monday.

The man was on the platform when he was hit by a northbound train shortly before 6:45 p.m. Sunday. The case remains under investigation.

He was the eighth person to die in incidents involving the Hiawatha light-rail line since it opened in 2004.

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