Three children die in crash inferno

THREE children were killed and a woman critically injured in a fiery crash early yesterday in the US state of Washington after the woman’s boyfriend held them at gunpoint in the car and then doused them with gasoline and set them afire, authorities said.

The man, whom the woman had recently accused of assault, also died.

The 19-year-old woman was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle following the crash at an intersection near Bonney Lake, east of Tacoma, Pierce County sheriff’s Detective Ed Troyer said.