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WILMER, Texas - A bus ferrying nursing-home residents away from Hurricane Rita caught fire and exploded Friday while stuck on a gridlocked highway south of Dallas, killing as many as 24 people.
Early indications were that mechanical problems, possibly with the vehicle's brakes, sparked the fire, which was then fed by explosions of passengers' oxygen tanks, Dallas County sheriff's spokesman Don Peritz said.See the full content of this document
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Bus with Evacuees Explodes, Killing Elderly
Authorities believed 24 people were killed, but that num...
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