STORY: A tour bus carrying about 50 people rolled over when the driver lost control on a western New York highway, causing multiple fatalities and dozens of injuries, police said on Friday (August 22) .

Trooper James O'Callahan, a spokesperson for the New York State Police, told reporters that authorities believe one child was among those killed. Most of the passengers were Asian or of Asian descent, including Chinese, Indians and Filipinos.

The accident took place on Interstate 90, part of the New York Thruway, in Pembroke, New York, about 30 miles east of Buffalo while the bus was traveling from Niagara Falls to New York City.

Some passengers were still trapped in the wreckage while others were ejected from the bus when it rolled, O'Callahan said.

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1. FIRST RESPONDERS AT SCENE OF OVERTURNED BUS IN DITCH

2. LONG LINE OF RESPONSE VEHICLES AT SCENE / MEDICAL HELICOPTER FLYING AWAY (MUTE)

3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NEW YORK STATE POLICE SPOKESPERSON JAMES O’CALLAGHAN, SAYING:

"It is a tour bus coming out of Niagara Falls back to what we believe New York City and it had about 50 plus passengers on that, women, children. Also the bus was traveling eastbound right before the Pembroke exit and for unknown reasons the vehicle lost control, went into the median, overcorrected and ended up in the ditch which would be on the right side of the roadway or the south side of what you would be the 90. And at this time, we have multiple fatalities, multiple entrapments, and multiple injuries. You can see behind me the amount of first responders from a lot of different police agencies besides New York State Police, fire, EMS, helicopters. A lot of people are being taken to Straw Memorial Hospital in Erie County Medical Center at this point with a lot of different injuries and a lot different things going on. But like I said, this is an ongoing incident. We don't have all the answers. We don't have the total tally of people as of this time."

4. FIRST RESPONDERS AT SCENE OF OVERTURNED BUS

5. POLICE LIGHTS

6. FIRST RESPONDERS AT SCENE OF OVERTURNED BUS