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A man’s body was removed from CTA tracks on the Blue Line on the West Side Thursday morning, officials said.

Firefighters were called to the Kedzie-Homan stop in the 500 block of South Homan Avenue for a person on the tracks around 9:30 a.m., according to the Chicago Fire Department.

The person was dead at the scene, the department said.

Chicago police were called to the scene in the 500 block of South Kedzie Avenue — the other end of the CTA station — about 9:45 a.m., said Officer Kevin Quaid, a police spokesman.

Police News Affairs did not immediately have information on how the man might have died, nor an exact age.

Trains were halted between Halted and Cicero while the body was removed.

Check back for updates.