Schuylkill County Deputy Coroner Albert Barnes said Friday that the victims of Monday's crash on Interstate 81 were between 40 to 70 years old and were burned beyond recognition, the Republican-Herald reported.Two were found in a box truck that was one of the first vehicles involved in the crash.Also killed was a man in a tractor-trailer, a man and woman in a car and another man in a car, all believed to have been from out of state.
The names of those killed will be released by state police as soon as a positive identity is made and families are notified. State police in Frackville said earlier that the crash, which occurred during"an active snow squall" at about 10:30 a.m. Monday, involved 39 commercial vehicles and 41 passenger vehicles.The crash was captured in videos posted on social media that showed drivers and passengers lining the snowy road and jumping out of the way as the cascade of crashes unfolded.
Some vehicles were mostly burned and others melted onto the highway, hampering efforts to clear the scene.
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