How can bash script do the equivalent of Ctrl-C to a background task?

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For anyone wondering, this is how you launch childs in the background and kill them on ctrl+c:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
command1 &
pid[0]=$!
command2 &
pid[1]=$!
trap "kill ${pid[0]} ${pid[1]}; exit 1" INT
wait

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