seven people, including a six-year-old child and a 16-year-old boy died when a bus overturned east of Vicksburg, Miss., early Saturday, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said.
THE two minors were brothersaccording to the coroner.
The Mississippi Highway Patrol said the incident This happened around 7:00 a.m. local time.00:00 in Mississippi, on Interstate 20 near Bovinain Warren County, when a 2018 Volvo commercial bus who traveled west left the road and overturned.
Thirty-seven passengers They were taken to different hospitals with unknown injuries.according to ReutersThey also reported that the second driver was not transported.
“Every time people are injured or killed, it’s tragic“But when you have a situation like this, where there are multiple deaths and multiple injuries, it just makes things worse,” Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said, according to the agencies.
Huskey also said the majority of the bus passengers were Latino.