One person died and three others were injured when the vehicle they were sitting in plunged into Alakhnanda river at Jawari bypass in Rudraprayag district on Friday. Four persons who were also travelling in the same vehicle are still missing. Following heavy rainfall in the mountainous parts of the state, Alakhnanda was in a state of spate. Police informed that the accident occurred at around 11.30 am when the driver seemed to have lost his control over the vehicle while negotiating a sharp bend at Jawari bypass in Rudraprayag, resulting in the vehicle plunging into the river. Along with local police, state disaster response force was rushed to the spot to conduct the rescue operation. While the team members brought four persons from the river one of them died. Four others were still missing at the time of filing the report. The vehicle was also yet to be recovered as it is supposed to have been flown away far by the gushing water of the swollen river. Police said it is not clear yet how many persons were on board in the vehicle. Search and rescue operation wasstill on, said Rudraprayag SSP Prahalad Narayan Singh Meena.