Police say that a couple hugged before they laid down on train tracks in what appears to have been a suicide pact

A Tri-Rail train heading to a Hollywood, Fla. station, is disorted by the heat waves rising from the ground Thursday Aug. 1, 2002. New "heat orders" were put into effect following an Amtrak derailment for all Amtrak trains and the Tri-Rail commuter system in Miami, Thursday. The derailment may have been caused by tracks buckling from the extreme heat. When the temperature rises above 90 degrees for two days in a row, train speeds will be lowered to 50 miles per hour between 1 and 9p.m. (AP Photo/J.Pat Carter)

Two 29-year-old homeless people were hit by a train in Delray Beach, Florida, this week in what police believe to be a suicide pact. Brandon Weiner and Mary Ann Ortega are the fourth and fifth people to be killed by a train this week, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Police believe that the cases may all be suicides.

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Tri-Rail, the group that operates the train line, is erecting signs, asking people to call the suicide-prevention hotline and even considering using drones to monitor the tracks.

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The incident happened at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, and though the conductor saw the two, he wasn’t able to bring the train to a stop in time to spare their lives. A police spokesperson said that the conductor watched Weiner and Ortega “hug each other and lie down together as the train approached.”

Both individuals had run-ins with the law for vagrancy-related incidents. The couple was stopped by police last week and arrested for heroin possession after Weiner admitted that the bags of heroin the police discovered belonged to him. Ortega recently worked at a dog-grooming business where her co-workers praised her as a kind and loving person.

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A World Atlas article from 2016 ranks Florida as 18th in the United States in suicides with 14.2 deaths per 100,000. Alaska, Montana and New Mexico leading the nation with over 20 deaths per 100,000.

You can find out more about the suicide prevention hotline here.

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