4 Girls Killed as Tree Falls on School Van
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NEW YORK — A 60-foot maple toppled in the wind and fell on a van carrying children and adults to minister-Rep. Floyd Flake’s church school Thursday, crushing four girls to death.
The girls--two of them sisters--were 10 to 12 years old. The driver, her husband and four other children suffered minor injuries.
Winds were gusting at 50 mph as the van headed to the Allen Christian School in the Queens neighborhood of St. Albans. The school is affiliated with the Allen AME Church, a congregation of 8,000 people headed by Flake, a New York Democrat.
Thursday’s wind blew down more than 100 trees in parks and on sidewalks in New York City.
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