STEELE, MO. (AP) -- Three Arkansas residents, including two children, have been killed in a two-vehicle collision in southeast Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that 6-year-old Briannah Taber, 3-year-old Shyannah Taber and 26-year-old Letisha
Ward, died Friday afternoon in the accident in Pemiscot County.  

The patrol said the three victims were from Blytheville, Ark. The patrol did not know their relationship to one another.

The accident occurred as the car the victims were in collided with a tractor-trailer at an intersection.

The patrol said two other people, a 5-year-old girl and a 29-year-old man, were also injured in the crash.

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