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Seven dead, dozens injured after bus overturns in Mississippi

Mississippi Highway Patrol said the incident took place on Interstate 20 near Bovina in Warren County.

Seven people, including a six-year-old boy and his 16-year-old sister, were killed when a bus overturned east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey has said.

They were identified by their mother. Authorities were working to identify the other victims, Huskey said.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol said the incident took place in the early hours of Saturday on Interstate 20 near Bovina in Warren County when a 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus travelling westbound left the roadway and overturned.

Thirty-seven passengers were transported to different hospitals with unknown injuries, the agency said. It said the co-driver was not transported.

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