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Two children among five dead in M6 crash
Five people, including two children, have been killed in a crash on the M6.
The two-car collision involved a Toyota and a Skoda and happened on the northbound motorway, past Tebay services in Cumbria, at 4.04pm on Tuesday, police said.
Four people – a man, a woman and two children from Glasgow – who were travelling in the Toyota were pronounced dead at the scene.
The Skoda driver, a man from Cambridgeshire, also died in the crash.
Cumbria Constabulary said a third child in the Toyota was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle with serious injuries.
The crash occurred on the M6 northbound, past Tebay services in Cumbria, on Tuesday afternoon
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A stretch of the M6 northbound between J36 and J39 was closed following the crash but reopened fully in the early hours of Wednesday.
A force spokesperson said: “The families of those involved are being supported by specially trained officers.”