HORRY COUNTY, SC. (THECOUNT) — Windy Newton, 45, of Shallotte, N.C., and Nicolette Green, 43, of Myrtle Beach, have been identified as the mental health patients in South Carolina killed after being inside a transport van that became flooded.

The patients were being taken from Loris Hospital and Waccamaw Mental Health Hospital to McLeod, according to WPDE.

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It happened in Horry County on Highway 917 Tuesday night as the van was in still water on Pee Dee Island Road near the bridge. source

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