Three people, including two children in Texas, were killed on Saturday as severe weather lashed parts of the South, as tornadoes tore through homes and hail and flash floods battered the region.

The children, who were 3 and 8, were driving home with their parents on a rural road near Pollok, Tex. — about 130 miles northeast of Houston — when a tree fell on their car, said Capt. Alton Lenderman of the Angelina County Sheriff’s Office.

The children, who were in the back seat, were pronounced dead at the scene.

“They were at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Captain Lenderman said. “The tree fell just as they were going under it.”

In Hamilton, Miss., about 170 miles northeast of Jackson, a man was found dead in his home on Sunday morning, the Monroe County sheriff, Cecil Cantrell, said. The man, who was in his late 90s, was believed to have been asleep when a tree fell on his house, the sheriff said.