Bus Accident Kills 8 In South Texas

At least eight people have been killed and 44 others are injured in South Texas on US Highway 83, 46 miles north of Laredo, on Saturday after a charter bus crash.

Seven of the accident victims died at the scene and one later at a Laredo hospital.

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Conrad Hein said driver of a charter bus lost control and rolled over just before 11:30 a.m. and as of now everything is in preliminary stage. The driver has survived.

He added Saturday morning was raining and the exact factor for the crash is yet to be known. Names of passengers and the driver too are not yet made public.

The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to the scene to investigate the wreck.

According to Webb County Volunteer Fire Department Chief Ricardo Rangel the bus belonged to OGA Charters and it was heading to a casino in Eagle Pass.

Laredo Medical Centre spokeswoman Priscilla Salinas said the injured are being treated and are in stable condition.

The crash is being said to be one of the deadliest bus accidents in Texas in past few years.

Ten people were killed in January 2015 after Texas Department of Criminal Justice bus crashed on a piece of displaced highway guardrail west of Odessa.

In 2008 seventeen people were killed near Sherman after a bus plunged over a highway bridge.

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