Six people were killed in a head-on collision on a rural Mississippi highway Thursday.

Officials with the Mississippi Highway Patrol report that the accident killed two adults and four children.

The crash occurred shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Highway 14 near Bobo Ming Road east of Louisville in Winston County.

The adults who were driving each vehicle involved in the wreck were identified as Laqerious Brown, 22, of Macon, and Sara Batchelor, 25, of Sebastopol. The children killed in the wreck included a 16-year-old, two 3-year-olds and a 1-year-old.

All were killed in the wreck, which remains under investigation by the Mississippi Highway Patrol.