Police: 3rd passenger in Delaware bus crash dies


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BEAR, Del. (AP) — Police say a third passenger injured in a Delaware bus crash last month has died.

Delaware State Police Sgt. Paul G. Shavack said in an email that 43-year-old Jyostina Poojari of Mumbai, India, died Thursday morning at Christiana Hospital in Newark. She was taken there after the Sept. 21 crash in Bear.

Two other passengers were killed and dozens were injured when the bus overturned on a curved exit ramp.

The driver, 56-year-old Jinli Zhao of Flushing, New York, has been charged with two counts of operating a vehicle causing the death of another person.

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