Woman jogging with running group struck and killed by train in Santa Fe Springs

A 34-year-old woman who was jogging with her running group in Santa Fe Springs died on Thursday morning after she was struck by an Amtrak train on the train tracks.

Officers with the Whittier Police Department responded around 8:30 a.m. to Lakeland Road between Bloomfield Avenue and Shoemaker Avenue to a person in the tracks. 

Aerial footage taken around noon showed a Pacific Surfliner train stopped, with a Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner van attending to the deceased person, who has been identified as Graciela Vargas.

Police said that two people who were running with a group were hit. Vargas died at the scene, while the other person is being treated at a hospital for their injuries and is expected to survive.