A boy has died after a car struck his mother and her six children as they walked to school in County Antrim.

The incident happened on the Loughill Road in the village of Cloughmills, near Ballymena this morning.

The dead boy was eight-year-old Adam Gilmour.

His mother was taken to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, where she is in a serious condition.

Four of the children are being treated in hospital.

An 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident.

Updated: 16.24