MN student dies after van rear-ends bus

Byron Public Schools are offering grief counselors to students and staff after a 17-year-old student died when her minivan rear-ended a school bus.

Olmsted County Sheriff's Sgt. Tom Claymon says Deianerah Logan of Pine Island struck the back of the bus Tuesday afternoon as it stopped to let a student off on a county road.

Firefighters pulled the van from under the bus and extricated Logan from the vehicle. A Mayo Clinic helicopter flew her to Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, where she died.

Logan - nicknamed "Deej" - was a student at Byron Public Schools in southeastern Minnesota.

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Superintendent Jeff Elstad tells the Post-Bulletin of Rochester the mood at school is "very somber."

The school bus driver and the two students on the bus were not hurt.

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Information from: Post-Bulletin