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Huntington County crash kills five-year-old boy

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WOWO): A crash Saturday afternoon has claimed the life of a 6-year-old boy.

The crash happened just before 4 p.m. Saturday along State Road 114 in Jackson Township, according to 21Alive. Two pickup trucks were pulling farming equipment when a minivan going the other way hit one of the pieces of equipment, causing it to crash into one of the pickups and the other equipment. Then, the van went off the north side of the road and went into an embankment.

Paramedics declared the boy dead at the scene from blunt force trauma. Four other people in the van, two adults and two other children, were taken to the hospital with unknown injuries.

The crash remains under investigation.

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