2 babies die after truck hits vehicles

Associated Press

PHOENIX

Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix.

An Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman says a car slowed on Interstate 10 on Saturday to look at a minor collision and cut off a minivan, which braked to avoid a crash.

A small sedan then hit the minivan, and a gas tanker hit the two vehicles.

A 13-month-old girl, a 3-week-old boy and a woman believed to be their mother were critically injured in the sedan and taken to hospitals, where the babies died.

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