A bus carrying farm laborers in northern Florida collided with a pickup truck on Tuesday and overturned, killing at least eight people and critically injuring eight others, authorities said.
The workers were headed to pick melons at Cannon Farms in Dunnellon, a small farming community about an hour's drive south of Gainesville, when the bus overturned. Marion County Fire & Rescue units were dispatched to the scene just after 6:30 a.m. EDT , the department said in a Facebook post."Today, we faced a tragic incident on West Highway 40 in Ocala with a devastating bus wreck," wrote Marion Fire Chief James Banta in the post.
Cannon Farms, which operates a commercial farm, said on Facebook that it will be closed on Tuesday "out of respect to the losses and injuries endured early this morning in the accident."Cannon said the accident "took place to the Olvera Trucking Harvesting Corp," but a representative could not be reached immediately to clarify. It is unclear whether Olvera owns the bus or hired the workers.
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