Six-year-old girl killed in horror head-on crash between car and military lorry in Spain

A YOUNG girl has died this morning after a traffic accident involving a car and a military lorry in Spain.

The little girl was killed when the car she was travelling in collided head-on with a large military lorry on a local road in Salamanca.

Emergency services 112 Castilla y León report the incident occurred at 8.35am this morning (Friday).

The accident took place on the DSA-310 road connecting Salamanca with the municipality of Matilla de los Caños del Río.

The DSA-310 has been closed to the public following the incident.

The cause of the accident is not known and a full-scale investigation is looking into the circumstances surrounding the incident.