Railway: 2 dead, 3 hurt in Mississippi train-van crash

RED BANKS, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a freight train has struck a van at a crossing in northwest Mississippi, leaving two people dead and three others critically injured.
BNSF Railway spokesman Joe Faust says his company’s train hit the van Tuesday afternoon in Red Banks, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of Memphis, Tennessee.
The county coroner tells local news outlets that the two people who died were ejected from the van. Their names haven’t yet been released. Fau