SEVEN people, including a pair of siblings, were killed when a passenger bus overturned and crashed outside of Mississippi.
The deadly crash, which left dozens injured, occurred just after midnight on Saturday.
A photo showing the overturned bus after it crashed on Saturday morning[/caption]
According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, all seven deceased passengers were killed as a result of blunt-force trauma.
Five passengers, including a 6-year-old boy, were pronounced dead at the scene.
One additional passenger, the boy’s 16-year-old sister, was transported to a nearby hospital, where she died shortly after arrival.
37 passengers were transported to hospitals in Vicksburg and Jackson with unknown injuries.
“Anytime you have people injured or killed, it’s tragic but when you have a situation like this where you have multiple fatalities and multiple injuries, it makes it even worse,” Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace told local ABC affiliate WAPT.
Sheriff Pace revealed that the number of deaths and injuries was especially high because of the way the bus crashed.
After the charter bus overturned, it left most riders trapped inside.
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