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An Iowa teenager was killed at a train crossing in southwest Iowa Friday evening.

AP 

A teenage girl has died after being hit by a freight train in the southwest Iowa community of Stanton.

Montgomery County Emergency Management reports a BNSF Railroad crew reported hitting the girl just before 5:30 P.M. Friday at a railroad crossing on the southern edge of Stanton.

The girl's name is being withheld until her family can be notified.

Stanton is about seven miles east of Red Oak.