FRESNO. August 8, 2009.  Up to seven people were killed on Saturday afternoon after a car slammed into another during a police chase near Dinuba in California, officials say.

The accident happened in a rural area near the small town of Dinuba at the intersection of Avenue 424 and Road 120, a spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol said. She also said the suspect inside the car was wanted for carjacking, but it was not immediately clear if the car they were driving was the stolen car or at what time the police chase began.

Besides the driver, two other people were also inside the car. At 2.45 p.m. local time, the chased car broadsided a second car which was carrying an unknown number of people, but at least four of them, and possibly five, were said to be children.

The four children on the second car, all who were under the age of 12, were confirmed dead on scene, the spokeswoman said. All three persons in the chased car, three adults, were also killed.

The California Highway Patrol will investigate the accident.