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2 Dead, Police Officer Injured In West Side Crash

CHICAGO (STMW) -- Two people were killed and a Chicago Police sergeant was hurt in a crash late Sunday on the West Side, police said.

A car was speeding west in the 4000 block of West Ogden Avenue about 11 p.m. when the vehicle struck the back of a squad car and then crashed into a building, police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.

Two males in the car, whose ages were not immediately available, were dead at the scene, Greer said.

A sergeant in the squad car was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Greer said.

The Cook County medical examiner's office could not immediately confirm the fatalities.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2014. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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