Five people have died and nearly three dozen have been injured after a bus in the US state of Virginia struck six vehicles, police say.

A bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 in Virginia as traffic slowed for a work zone, killing five people and sending 34 to hospitals, state police said Friday.

Virginia State Police said their preliminary investigation indicated that the accident, which took place around 2:35 a.m., occurred after the bus “failed to slow” for traffic that had slowed down ahea...