Delhi : Five Indian students were killed and two others injured in a fatal accident near Toronto in Canada on Saturday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced today.

Reports from Canada said that the students were killed in a collision between a passenger van and a tractor trailer on Highway 401 in Quinte West. Students were travelling in passenger van.

An official statement by local police identified the victims as – Harpreet Singh, Jaspinder Singh, Karanpal Singh, Mohit Chouhan and Pawan Kumar. Police said that the victims were pronounced dead at the scene of Saturday’s crash.

The victims were from 21 to 24 of age and provincial police say they were all students in the Greater Toronto and Montreal areas, according to a report in cp24.com. They were travelling west in a passenger van on Highway 401 Saturday morning when they collided with a tractor trailer at around 3:45 a.m, the report added.
Police say two other passengers were taken to hospital with serious injuries following the crash, but did not update their conditions.

The investigation is on at the crush remains and charges were not yet framed.