RCMP have confirmed that three people from Prince Edward Island have died after a two-vehicle collision Tuesday near the Confederation Bridge in New Brunswick. 

According to police, the collision is believed to have occurred when an ambulance travelling westbound and a transport truck headed eastbound collided just after 9 a.m. along Route 16 in Melrose, N.B., about 12 km southwest of the bridge.  

The driver of the ambulance, a man from Warren Grove, P.E.I., along with a woman from Montague and …