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An 83-year-old woman died Tuesday afternoon near West Edmonton Mall after being struck by an Edmonton Transit bus carrying passengers.

The woman was lawfully crossing in a marked crosswalk on 87 Avenue at 169 Street from the north curb to the south curb when she was struck by the bus, Edmonton police said.

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She was treated by paramedics and taken to hospital, where she died from her injuries. It was Edmonton’s 19th traffic fatality of 2016.

Police closed part of 87 Avenue as major collision unit officers investigated. Police tape cordoned off two city buses and the crosswalk at 169 Street.

Under the second bus, the No. 112 bound for West Edmonton Mall, a small woman’s dress shoe was behind the wheel near the passenger entrance. Nearby, there was a red plastic shopping bag. The bus windshield was cracked on the driver’s side. There was blood on the road in front of the bus.

The bus appeared to have been trying to turn west from 169 Avenue onto 87 Avenue through a marked crosswalk with signals.