New York State Police said in a news release on Saturday that Shankar Kumar Jha, 65, of Madhu Bani, India; Pinki Changrani, 60, of East Brunswick, New Jersey; Columbia University student Xie Hongzhuo, 22, of Beijing, China; Zhang Xiaolan, 55 of Jersey City, New Jersey; and Jian Mingli, 56, of Jersey City, died in the crash.

The bus, which was carrying 54 people to New York City from Niagara Falls, veered off the New York State Thruway near Buffalo.

Those who were killed include a student from Columbia University, three New Jersey residents and a man from India.