Six people, including three teenagers, were killed in a multi-vehicle crash on an Ohio highway, according to police

Officials said that six people, including three teens, died in a multi-vehicle collision involving a high school charter bus on an Ohio highway on Tuesday morning.

According to the authorities, the collision happened on Interstate 70 in Etna just before nine in the morning local time, injuring over a dozen additional persons.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that the charter bus, two commercial vehicles, and two passenger automobiles were among the five vehicles involved in the "chain-reaction crash" that occurred while the vehicle was going westward on the highway. According to the report, at least three cars later caught fire.

According to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, students from Tuscarawas Valley Local Schools were being transported by the Pioneer Trails charter bus at the time.

"Let me just say that this is our worst nightmare when we have a bus full of children in a crash," DeWine said during a press briefing Tuesday.