Four young children and their mother have died in a fiery head-on crash that’s closed a highway south of the Queensland town of Kingaroy.

The woman and her children where in a car attempting to overtake a truck on the Bunya Highway just before 7.30pm on Monday. The car hit another truck heading in the opposite direction.

All of the children are aged under 10.

AAP.

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