Federal safety investigators are examining the wreckage of a charter bus headed from Niagara Falls to New York City that veered off the road and crashed Friday afternoon, killing five people and injuring many more on I-90 in the Genesee County town of Pembroke, New York.

Those killed include a Columbia University student from Beijing, Xie Hongzhuo, 21, as well as three New Jersey residents, Jian Mingli, 56 and Zhang Xiaolan, 55, from Jersey City and Pinki Changrani, 60, from East Brunswick. The other person identified is Shankar Kumar Jha, 65, from Madhubani, India.

“We are devastated by the death of one of our students, Xie Hongzhuo, in the tragic bus accident near Buffalo on Friday,” Columbia University spokesperson Adam Stephan wrote in a statement. “This heartbreaking loss is felt

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