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[FONT=&]The Latest on a train-bus collision in Biloxi, Mississippi (all times local):[/FONT]
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[FONT=&]A fourth person has died after a freight train hit a tour bus in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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[FONT=&]Fire Chief Joe Boney says three people died before they could be taken to hospitals, while a fourth person died after being taken from the scene.
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[FONT=&]Boney say 35 passengers were taken to area hospitals. He says emergency workers had to cut through the bus wreckage to remove two people.
[/FONT]senior citizens. Charter buses often carry patrons to one of Biloxi’s eight casinos
CSX, based in Jacksonville, Florida
nearby hospital set up a triage unit at the site to treat the injured, and helicopters were carrying the injured to hospitals that handle trauma cases.
The bus was marked as belonging to Echo Transportation, which Texas corporate records show is a unit of a company called TBL Group, based in Grand Prairie, near Dallas
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[/FONT] [FONT=&]http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/train-hits-bus-in-mississippi-3-dead-unknown-number-hurt/ar-AAnZvtf
[/FONT]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/07/at-least-3-dead-after-train-hits-charter-bus-in-mississippi.html
The CSX freight train was traveling east when it collided the charter bus that was heading north and pushed it nearly 300 feet down the tracks, he said. ... The CSX train, pulled by three locomotives, was headed eastbound when it hit the bus at a crossing in downtown Biloxi just before 2:15p.m., Creel told the AP.43 mins ago
http://wgntv.com/2017/03/07/train-hits-bus-in-mississippi-unknown-number-dead-injured/
[FONT=&]4:30 p.m.
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[FONT=&]A fourth person has died after a freight train hit a tour bus in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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[FONT=&]Fire Chief Joe Boney says three people died before they could be taken to hospitals, while a fourth person died after being taken from the scene.
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[FONT=&]Boney say 35 passengers were taken to area hospitals. He says emergency workers had to cut through the bus wreckage to remove two people.
[/FONT]senior citizens. Charter buses often carry patrons to one of Biloxi’s eight casinos
CSX, based in Jacksonville, Florida
nearby hospital set up a triage unit at the site to treat the injured, and helicopters were carrying the injured to hospitals that handle trauma cases.
The bus was marked as belonging to Echo Transportation, which Texas corporate records show is a unit of a company called TBL Group, based in Grand Prairie, near Dallas
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[/FONT] [FONT=&]http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/train-hits-bus-in-mississippi-3-dead-unknown-number-hurt/ar-AAnZvtf
[/FONT]http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/07/at-least-3-dead-after-train-hits-charter-bus-in-mississippi.html
The CSX freight train was traveling east when it collided the charter bus that was heading north and pushed it nearly 300 feet down the tracks, he said. ... The CSX train, pulled by three locomotives, was headed eastbound when it hit the bus at a crossing in downtown Biloxi just before 2:15p.m., Creel told the AP.43 mins ago
http://wgntv.com/2017/03/07/train-hits-bus-in-mississippi-unknown-number-dead-injured/