A woman is dead and a man had both legs amputated by a train after the couple decided to have sex on train tracks in Kiev.

They were walking home from a party early Saturday morning when they decided they wanted a "thrill" and became passionate on the tracks, Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a release on its website.

A short time later, a railway manager called emergency crews about two people who were injured on the tracks.

The woman, who was in her 30s, died at the scene while the 41-year-old man was taken to hospital.