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Deadly Weekend On Minn. Roads: 7 People Killed

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- It's been a deadly weekend on Minnesota roads. Authorities say seven people were killed in five separate crashes.

Two people are dead and two others are injured after a crash at the intersection of County Road 40 and County Road 5, west of New London. The crash occurred around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. The two people killed have been identified as 28-year-old David Arroyo-Morales and 29-year-old Alberto Arroyo-Morales both of Willmar, Minn.

Two were killed after three vehicles collided in Goodhue County, where another man was injured. That crash happened around 7:30 p.m. near Highway 52 and County Road 9. Angelo and Connie Dimopolous, of Chicago, were killed.

Thirty-seven-year-old Jeremy Topper, of Cohasset, was killed when his pick-up truck went off the road on Highway 169, ejecting him from the vehicle. That crash occurred around 2:42 a.m. Saturda in Itasca County.

Another crash occurred in Faribault when a southbound car went off Lyndale Avenue, near Division Street, and hit a metal power pole, killing the driver. James Holm, 52, has been identified as that driver.

One person was killed in an overnight crash on Highway 210 and County Road 33 in Otter Tail County, after two vehicles crashed. Eight people were in the two vehicles. It is not clear if anyone else was injured.

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