11 Killed in Ky. Crash, Van on Way to Wedding(VIDEO)

State police in Kentucky say 11 people are dead after a collision between a van carrying Mennonites to a wedding and a tractor-trailer.

Reports state that two children were the only survivors of the crash, which also killed the driver of the tractor-trailer.

The crash happened at about 5:30am local time and the van of people were on their way to a wedding in Iowa.

Ten were members of a family named Esh from Marrowbone, Cumberland County Sheriff James Pruitt said.

Pruitt said the family is Amish, but Pastor Leroy Kauffman of the Marrowbone Christian Brotherhood in Burkesville, Ky., said they were Mennonites.

11 Mennonites killed in Kentucky crash...on their way to a wedding!!!!

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