"Today at 2 am, we received a call that one car has plunged into a river. The fire station staff immediately reached here. A car had plunged into the river. A woman who was there in the car during the incident said that a male companion was also there with her," said the official.
Two people died and eight were injured after a car lost control and fell into a gorge in Duwakoti village in the Gaja sub-district of Tehri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand on Sunday.
One person was killed and three people are missing after a car fell into a canal at the Jahangirpur Police Station area in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district on Sunday night, said police.
One man was killed and three others were seriously injured after a vehicle carrying 12 passengers plunged into the Araku valley in Andhra Pradesh's Alluri district, officials said on Friday.
This event comes just a month after a similar tragic accident where five passengers drowned when a car, en route from Mailsi to Multan for a wedding, was submerged in a canal.
Speaking to ANI, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Vishesh Paul Mahajan said, "The identity card of one of the missing persons was recovered at the scene of the accident."