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Trenton Transit Center on Friday, September 20, 2013.

(Martin Griff / The Times of Trenton)

TRENTON - N.J. Transit Police say that a man who was trespassing on the tracks along North Clinton Avenue had his leg amputated after he was struck by a train pulling into the Trenton Transit Center around 12:45 a.m.

A spokeswoman for the transit police said that the man is alive and was taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance after part of his leg was removed below the right knee.

The Trenton Fire Department responded to the accident as well. Officials from both agencies say they are unsure of the man's condition before the accident and have not yet determined why he was on the tracks.

Transit police are actively investigating the incedent, the spokeswoman said.

The train -- traveling along the Northeast Corridor from New York Penn Station to Trenton Transit Center -- was briefly delayed but train schedules were not affected, officials said.

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