Bill Hutchinson

A BART train struck and killed a person along the tracks in Berkeley on Tuesday afternoon, prompting the closure of the North Berkeley Station for two hours, officials said.

At 1:15 p.m., a train operator reported possibly striking a person along the tracks leaving the North Berkeley Station in the Richmond direction, said Alicia Trost, a spokeswoman for the transit agency. BART police shut down the station around 1:30 p.m. and started searching the tracks.