All of the passengers were migrants who had paid for the private bus service to reach the shelter on their way north, Gozaine told The Washington Post. Some of the dead were children, she said.
Several other passengers were hospitalized with serious injuries. “We imagine that everyone on that bus has some type of injury,” Gozaine said.
One hospital was treating 10 children between ages 4 and 11 who were injured in the crash, its medical director told a local news station. Three were in critical condition as of early afternoon.