Train Hits Veterans Parade In Texas, Killing 4

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A freight train slammed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans in West Texas on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 17 others, the Associated Press reports

The train was sounding its horn and people on the flatbed truck — mostly wounded veterans and their spouses — were scrambling to jump off before the collision around 4:40 p.m. in Midland, according to witnesses and Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lange.

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