A WOMAN and a child have been pronounced dead at the scene of an accident on the M2 this morning.

Firefighters were searching for a third person in the wreckage.

The crash involved a car and a lorry and took place at 10.30am on the coastbound carriageway at junction five for Sittingbourne.

The motorway has been closed at junction five.

* See tomorrow's Kent Messenger for full details.