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Two killed in freeway crash in New Mexico during dust storm

LORDSBURG, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a California woman and a Florida woman have been killed in a New Mexico freeway crash during a dust storm. New Mexico State Police on Friday identified the two victims as 64-year-old Gail Boulanger of Redondo Beach, California and 83-year-old Helen Mitchner of Spring Hill, Florida. They say a passenger car got sandwiched between two semi-trucks on Interstate 10 west of Lordsburg on Thursday afternoon. Police say visibility was low at the time of the accident due to a dust storm. They say Boulanger and Mitchner both were declared dead at the scene. The fatal crash remains under investigation.