Two students died and three other people were seriously injured after a school bus rolled off a Houston freeway overpass.

A Houston Independent School District statement said a girl died at the scene, and another student died later at a hospital. The district said two other students and the bus driver were also taken to hospitals with serious injuries.

Officials were investigating the cause of the crash.

Houston operates the state’s largest public school district with about 215,000 students.

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