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Road crash kills 5 children on major French holiday route

The vehicle carrying nine people, all members of the same family,  started to spew smoke and caught fire as it drove on the A7 in south-east France.

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A car laden with travelers careened off one of France's busiest highways in smoke and flames, killing five children and injuring the four other people aboard as it barrel-rolled in a fiery wreck, reports the Star Tribune.

The vehicle was carrying nine people, all members of the same family, on Monday evening when it started to spew smoke and caught fire, seemingly sparked by an as-yet-undetermined technical problem, authorities said.

Read more of this Assocated Press report published by the Star Tribune.