Seven people have been killed and dozens more injured in western Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20, according to the state’s highway patrol.
Six passengers were pronounced dead at the scene and another died at a hospital, according to a news release. The bus was traveling west on Saturday morning when it left the highway near Bovina in Warren county and flipped over, police said. No other vehicle was involved.
Thirty-seven passengers were taken to hospitals in Vicksburg and the state capital of Jackson. The highway patrol is continuing its investigation and has not released the names of those who died. But CBS News reported that among those killed were a six-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister, attributing the Warren county coroner.
The siblings were from Guatemala and their mother identified them, coroner Doug Huskey reportedly told CBS. Others on the bus were also from Guatemala, according to Huskey.
No other information was immediately provided.
The Associated Press contributed reporting