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Houston school bus crash kills 2 students, 3 people hurt

An emergency personnel looks inside a school bus after the bus went off a Houston freeway and rolled  in southeast Houston on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. The Houston Independent School District says a girl died in Tuesday morning’s accident. Emergency responders say the student was dead at the scene.  Officials are trying to determine what caused the crash. A district spokeswoman says it appears the bus went off an overpass. (Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
An emergency personnel looks inside a school bus after the bus went off a Houston freeway and rolled in southeast Houston on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. The Houston Independent School District says a girl died in Tuesday morning’s accident. Emergency responders say the student was dead at the scene. Officials are trying to determine what caused the crash. A district spokeswoman says it appears the bus went off an overpass. (Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT An emergency personnel looks inside a school bus after the bus went off a Houston freeway and rolled in southeast Houston on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. The Houston Independent School District says a girl died in Tuesday morning’s accident. Emergency responders say the student was dead at the scene. Officials are trying to determine what caused the crash. A district spokeswoman says it appears the bus went off an overpass. (Cody Duty/Houston Chronicle via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

HOUSTON (AP) – Two students are dead and three other people are seriously injured after a school bus rolled off a Houston freeway overpass.

A Houston Independent School District statement says a girl died at the scene Tuesday morning, and another student died at a hospital.

The district says two other students and the bus driver were also taken to hospitals with serious injuries.

The bus was bound for Furr High School, which also operates a charter school.

Names of the victims haven’t been released.