AYER, MASS. (WHDH) - Twelve climate change activists were taken into custody overnight for trespassing on a set of train tracks in Ayer.
About 15 to 20 people lined up across the tracks around 4 a.m. Sunday morning and were blocking the path of a freight train with signs protesting the use of gas and coal, according to the Ayer Police Department.
Officers from several different towns and the Massachusetts State Police were called in to assist with the arrests.
They were arraigned in Ayer District Court on Monday.
No further information has been made available.
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