Five dead in Illinois flooding

From CNN's Tony Marco

Three adults and two children died after their car was swept into a stream swollen by heavy rains as they were trying to traverse a low-water crossing area Saturday in southern Illinois, according to Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon.

The bodies were recovered several hundred feet downstream, according to Cannon.

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