Police say they are trying to find out what the two people were doing on the line and are working on identifying them.
Two people have died after being electrocuted at different points on the same stretch of railway line in east London.
Emergency services were called to the London Overground line between Hackney Wick and Stratford in the early hours of Thursday. The first person was found by police at around 1am and pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining serious injuries consistent with electrocution. Officers were then called out again at 2.31am following reports of a second casualty further along the line near Stratford.A British Transport Police spokesman said the deaths are being linked and that one victim was a male in his 20s but they have yet to identify the other person.
BTP officers remained on the scene on Thursday morning where they were trying to establish how the two people came to be on the tracks a significant distance from each other.
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