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Video shows 2 Chicago cops didn't see train that fatally struck them as they kept an eye on another train

CHICAGO - The two Chicago police officers scrambled up the embankment and walked south on the Metra tracks, keeping an eye on an approaching train as they searched for a shooting suspect Monday night on the Far South Side.

The noise from the train they saw apparently masked the sound of a train coming up fast behind them. The officers had "no idea" that train was approaching before it struck and killed them on a viaduct over 103rd Street, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

Based largely on footage from a body

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