New York State Police have identified the five people killed after a tour bus returning from a trip to Niagara Falls overturned in upstate New York on Friday, injuring dozens of others. New York State Police Trooper James O’Callaghan said during a press briefing that the deadly crash occurred on Interstate 90 in Pembroke, near Buffalo. Columbia University said in a statement Saturday: “We are devastated by the death of one of our students, Xie Hongzhuo, in the tragic bus accident near Buffalo on Friday. Authorities said that “it’s believed the operator became distracted, lost control, over-corrected and ended up on the right shoulder there. The bus operator was identified as 55-year-old Bin Shao of Flushing, New York, and police say that he had no signs of impairment, and the tour bus had no mechanical failure.