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Bodies recovered after transportation van swept off road by flood waters, deputies on administrative leave

MULLINS, SC (WOLO)- Two mental health patients died Tuesday when an Horry County Sheriff’s Office transport van drove through flooded waters on Highway 76, near Little Pee Dee River. Nearly 24 hours after the two women died, their bodies were finally pulled out of the still submerged van. Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson identified the two victims as Windy Newton,…