Two people have died after being hit by a freight train in Sydney’s north .
Police said Aroulen Chinnien, who was in his 20s, was assisting a woman in her 30s off the tracks before they were struck by the train at Berowra Railway Station about midnight on Friday.
Police sources have told the ABC the pair was known to each other and had an argument on the platform prior to the accident.
It is believed Mr Chinnien, who was known as Vin, threw something belonging to the woman onto the tracks before she jumped down off the platform to retrieve it.
He then saw the oncoming train and jumped onto the tracks to save her.
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