Four members of up and coming indie band Viola Beach are believed to have died along with their manager in a car crash in Sweden.

The car they were travelling is reported to have gone through a barrier of a bridge that had been opened to allow a cargo ship to go underneath near Stockholm.

The victims include guitarist and vocalist Kris Leonard, guitarist River Reeves, Bassist Tomas Lowe, drummer Jack Dakin, and manager Craig Tarry.

The band had been in Sweden to perform at the Where’s the Music? festival in Norrköping.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: ‘We can confirm that five British nationals died in a car accident in Sweden on February 13.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/14/five-british-people-killed-in-car-crash-in-sweden-5681014/#ixzz409cDRWK2