(KLZA)-- Three people were killed and three others were injured in a 4-vehicle wreck on Interstate 29 in Atchison County, Missouri Sunday morning.

According to a report from the Missouri Highway Patrol, a Freemont County, Iowa Sheriff's deputy was pursing a Kia Sorento driven by a 29-year-old Bellevue, Nebraska man who was southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate-29 about six miles north of Watson.

The Kia struck a northbound Ford Focus driven by an 18-year-old man from Kearney, Missouri head-on.

The report indicates the Kia traveled off the west side road, where it struck a bridge abutment and caught fire. The Ford Focus traveled off the west side of the road and overturned, ejecting an occupant.

A northbound semi truck driven by 30-year-old man from Ontario, Canada swerved avoid the two vehicles but struck the sheriff's deputy's vehicle.

The 18-year-old driver of the Kia and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus ,along with the 19-year-old driver of the Focus, were pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck.

An 18-year-old female passenger in the Focus was airlifted to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. A 1-year-old child in the Kia and the sheriff's deputy were transported by ambulance to a hospital in Hamburg, Iowa for the treatment of injuries.

Interstate 29 was closed to traffic at the scene of the wreck until about 2:15 Sunday afternoon.