Five New York Women from Same Family Killed in Pennsylvania Highway Crash

The women were returning from an Islamic pilgrimage when their vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer after crashing into a median on a snowy highway.

Five women from the same family, all residents of New York, were killed on a snowy Pennsylvania highway when a tractor-trailer struck them after their vehicle crashed into a median barrier.
The victims were identified as Harvrist Zebari, 42, Fatma Ahmed, 71, Shahzinaz Mizouri, 56, Aleen Ameen, 19, and Berivan Zebara, 43.
The women were returning from Umrah, an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, according to a Facebook post from the Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier, which the women were members of.
A 22-year-old man from Johnson City, who had been driving a separate vehicle and had stopped to help the women, sustained moderate injuries, while the driver of the tractor-trailer sustained minor injuries.
The Pennsylvania State Police are still investigating the contributing factors to the crash.

The Columbus Dispatch