Church bus crash kills 1 in Mississippi

MERIDIAN, MS Anderson, a First Baptist Church of Shreveport member who was on the bus that crashed Sunday in east Mississippi, killing one person and injuring 23 others.

The church group was heading to a youth camp in Macon, Ga.

Most of those aboard were children, including Anderson's daughter who was a camp counselor who's pregnant but was not hurt.

The bus rolled three times, Lauderdale County Coroner Clayton Cobler said. He said at least two passengers were trapped underneath the bus. A group of National Guard soldiers helped extricate the injured.

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