Columbia University IDs victims in Honduran bus crash

This photo courtesy of El Heraldo de Honduras newspaper shows a bus on its side along the highway between the town of San Juancito and the capital city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Two New York college students and a U.S. health-care worker died Wednesday in this Central American nation when their bus crashed while taking them to the airport to fly home after a volunteer mission helping poor Hondurans. (El Heraldo de Honduras via AP) This photo courtesy of El Heraldo de Honduras newspaper shows a bus on its side along the highway between the town of San Juancito and the capital city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Two New York college students and a U.S. health-care worker died Wednesday in this Central American nation when their bus crashed while taking them to the airport to fly home after a volunteer mission helping poor Hondurans. (El Heraldo de Honduras via AP)

By Associated Press January 14, 2016 1 min read

NEW YORK (AP) – Columbia University has identified the three women who died in a bus crash in Honduras while on a humanitarian mission to the Central American country.

They were killed Wednesday when the bus crashed while taking them to the airport to fly home after a volunteer mission helping poor Hondurans.

Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger identified the victims in an email to students Wednesday night: Columbia student Olivia Erhardt and Barnard student Daniella Moffson. He identified the third victim as Abigail Flanagan, a nurse practitioner at Columbia University Medical Center and a student at the university’s School of General Studies.

He said other Columbia students were injured in the accident. Bollinger said they were volunteering for the Columbia chapter of U.S.-based Global Brigades, which organizes international health and development missions.