Four students at Maine Maritime Academy in the US were killed in a road accident that injured three others.

The academy’s president, Jerry S Paul, said he was “devastated” to confirm the weekend incident.

The Associated Press reported that the deaths took place after a Range Rover being driven by student Joshua Goncalves-Radding veered of the road, crashed into a tree and erupted into flames on Saturday in the town of Castine, Maine.