Nelson House RCMP are investigating with assistance from an RCMP forensic collision reconstructionist after three youth were struck and killed by a vehicle last night.

RCMP were called to the scene after 10:30pm after receiving a report that three children had been struck and killed by a vehicle on Provincial Road 620 around two kilometres north of Nelson House.

The three boys from Nelson House, two 11-year-olds and a 13-year-old, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigating officers believe that the vehicle that hit the youth was travelling southbound and was driven by a 27-year-old Nelson House resident. It is believed that two of the children were walking while the third was on a bike at the time of the collision. 

The RCMP said that the driver exited the vehicle following the collision to flee the scene on foot. He turned himself in to the Nelson House RCMP detachment an hour and a half later. 

Mounties say that there were four passengers in the vehicle at the time of the incident and that alcohol is confirmed to have played a factor in the collision. Multiple charges are pending against the driver.