PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

Six persons including a young schoolboy were killed in a massive smash-up on a highway leading into the city of Port-of-Spain on Saturday night, while three others are in critical condition at hospital.

The four-vehicle crash occurred shortly after 7:00 p.m. along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, in the vicinity of the Arranguez Savannah.

Two of the dead persons have been identified as Aaron Ward of Woodbrook and Pilar Ayoung Chee.