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HOUSTON (AP) - A driver facing negligent homicide charges in a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients during the Hurricane Rita evacuation agreed Wednesday to help federal investigators.
Juan Robles Gutierrez, 37, a Mexican national, was detained in Houston as a material witness to the investigation, though neither his attorney nor prosecutors would give details about the probe.
The bus, owned by Global Limo Inc. caught fire Sept. 23 from a malfunctioning back wheel. After the fire started, oxygen tanks used by some of the patients on the bus began exploding.
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