A pedestrian was hit by an Exo passenger train on Wednesday evening in Rosemère on the North Shore of Montreal.

The accident occurred around 10 p.m. on the railway tracks at Boulevard Desjardins Est, according to the Régie intermunicipale de police Thérèse-De Blainville.

Firefighters and paramedics were dispatched to the scene where they found an injured man in cardiopulmonary arrest.

The victim, whose age was not specified, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead later that night.

The coroner has been instructed to conduct the investigation into the causes and circumstances of this death, said Luc Larocque, spokesman for the RIPTB.

The police specify that the investigators were going to meet witnesses and proceed to the examination of the scene with the collaboration of Canadian Pacific (CP).

"If you have any information related to this event, please contact us at 450-435-2421, ext. 0," it added.