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Bus carrying junior high football team crashes in Pennsylvania, sending 21 people to hospital

Bus overturned about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh while carrying players from Aliquippa junior high school

A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed on Saturday north of Pittsburgh, sending 21 of the 28 people onboard to the hospital, officials said.

Twenty-five Aliquippa junior high students and three adults were headed to a game in nearby Gibsonia. The crash occurred in Economy Borough, about 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.

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