3 dead, 3 injured in Cape Breton crash

RCMP say two teenagers from Inverness County and a 71-year-old man from Utah are dead following a two-vehicle crashinMabou, N.S.

Police responded to a report of thecrashat 5:10 a.m. AT on July 20.

Once on the scene, they discovered that a car and a pickup trucktravelling in opposite directions on Highway 19 had collided.

The driver and passenger of the car, both teens, were pronounced dead atthe scene, police say.

The 71-year-old man, a passenger of the pickup truck, died after being transported tohospital. Three additional occupants of the vehicle, also from Utah, went to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

Police later said a third vehicle a car was involved in the collision. Police said thatcarcollided with the first car moments after the initial crash. The driver and only occupant of the car, a youth, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.