UPDATE, 5:16 p.m.: Police identified the man as 51-year-old Ricardo Antonio Levia Aldana and said his death appears to be accidental. Aldana tried to cross the tracks after a CSX freight train passed on one set of tracks, and was then struck by a MARC train that was traveling the opposite direction.

ORIGINAL POST: A pedestrian was fatally struck by a MARC train in Gaithersburg on Friday evening.

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