KEMPER COUNTY, MS : 3 killed in 2nd fatal wreck in Kemper County on Thursday, 6th June 2019

The Kemper County sheriff says three people have been killed and multiple others have been injured in the second wreck this week near a small eastern Mississippi town.

Sheriff James Moore told The Associated Press that the injuries are critical for two people. He said an empty school bus and three other vehicles crashed Wednesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 45 south of Scooba.A Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman, Sgt. Andy West, said one southbound vehicle crossed a median and hit three vehicles that were northbound.

The town of about 695 residents is near the Alabama state line. The school bus is from Meridian, a city south of the wreck site.

A wreck before dawn Monday killed eight people on Mississippi Highway 16 east of Scooba. That one involved a box truck and a passenger van.

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