A four-year-old girl who was walking with her grandmother was among the people killed in a truck crash in Bath, police have confirmed.
A Scania tipper truck struck the pair and several vehicles on a steep hill near a primary school in Lansdown Lane just after 16:00 GMT on Monday.
Three men from south Wales who were in a Volvo car, also died at the scene from their injuries.
The injured grandmother remains in a critical condition in hospital.
'Tragic incident'Two other people are being treated in hospital for minor injuries, including the lorry driver. Another man was discharged overnight.
Police said those killed in the car were a 59-year-old man from Cwmbran and two men, aged 52 and 34, from Swansea.
"This is a tragic incident in which three men and a young girl have lost their lives and we're carrying out a full and meticulous investigation to find out what happened," Ch Insp Norman Pascal of Avon and Somerset Police said.
"The tipper truck has been recovered and will undergo a full examination. Our investigators will be carrying out further enquiries at the scene today."
Police described how they were met with a scene "of carnage" when they arrived at Lansdown Lane on Monday afternoon.
The road has been closed since while accident investigations are carried out and sand and gravel from the truck is cleaned up.
The wreckage of the lorry and a badly damaged car were removed from the area early on Tuesday.
The accident happened close to Weston All Saints Primary School. The school was closed on Tuesday.
At a church service, held at All Saints Church, rector Patrick Whitworth said a "beautiful sunny day" had quickly turned to tragedy.
Rescue attemptBrian Fisher, 53, who was working near the site of the crash when it happened, said: "It was carnage, absolute carnage."
He and his colleague Karl Morgan, 32, tried to help the injured.
"We rushed there and tried to do what we could to help," Mr Fisher said. "I didn't get as far as the little girl, I helped get a pregnant woman out of her car who had abdominal pains. Karl found the little girl.
"We went to the silver car in which the three people died. We didn't see it at first, it was at the other side of the lorry.
"We rushed there and tried to do what we could, to lift bits of the car off and get them out, but you wouldn't recognise it as a car.
"I couldn't even tell you what make it was - the damage was that bad.
"There was a nurse who tried to clear a guy's airway but it didn't work. I don't know where they found the third person because we only found two.
"I spoke to a police officer who said that in 25 years he had never seen anything like this."
Sean McCostlin, who lives on Lansdown Lane, described the incident as "shocking".
"I heard the horn [of the truck] blare about twice and it went really quickly by the house," he said.
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