At around 12:10pm on Saturday, the police department of Armenia’s Shirak Province received information that a person had fallen under the Yerevan-Gyumri passenger train, shamshyan.com reported.

It was found out that a woman on the railway tracks was run over by this moving train and she had died on the spot; she was about 55 to 60 years old.

Several people gathered at the scene said: "For a moment we saw that this woman ran on to the railway tracks, and the passenger train came, but that woman—we do not know why—did not try to get off the tracks; and the train conductor could not stop [the train]."