BERKELEY — Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found near an encampment by the BART train tracks, police said.

Police identified the woman as a 40-year-old, but her name has not been released pending the notification of her family.

Her body was found on the east side of the BART tracks north of 63rd Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, according to a Berkeley police news release.

Police said as part of the standard protocol for death investigations, homicide investigators were called to the scene. A cause of death has not yet been determined.