After spending the morning taking in the breathtaking sights at Niagara Falls, a group of tourists boarded a bus to return to New York City, not knowing about an hour later, their bus would be lying on its side in the ditch off the New York State Thruway.

A tour bus returning from a trip to Niagara Falls overturned in upstate New York on Friday, killing five people and injuring dozens of others, some of whom became trapped or ejected, police said. The deadly crash occurred on Interstate 90 in Pembroke,

Five people have died after a tour bus on its way back from Niagara Falls crashed in New York state. All 54 people onboard were “ejected” or were trapped, police said, as rescuers scrambled to free passengers stuck beneath the coach.