HORRY COUNTY, S.C. – Two inmates in South Carolina have died after being inside a jail transport van that flooded.

WPDE reported that it happened in Horry County on Highway 917 Tuesday night as the van was in still water on Pee Dee Island Road near the bridge.

The deputies in the van were rescued, but the prisoners were chained in the back of the van. Their names haven’t been released.

More information will be released as it becomes available.