One person is dead and another is injured after a head-on collision in southern Saskatchewan.

RCMP were called to the two-vehicle crash on Highway 2, near Holdfast, Sask., at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday.

The driver in the southbound vehicle was killed while the driver in the northbound vehicle sustained serious injuries, police said in a media release. Both drivers were male — RCMP have yet to clarify their ages — and both were the lone occupants in their vehicles.

The injured driver was transported via STARS air ambulance to hospital in Regina.

The investigation is ongoing, police said.

Holdfast is located about 100 kilometres northwest of Regina.