Five people from Haryana, between the age group of 20-25 years, were killed near Kandaghat on the Solan-Shimla route on National Highway 5. Residents of Raipur Rani area of Panchkula district, they were killed when their car turn off the road and fell into 300 meters gorge at Padhotha near Kandaghat in Solan district on late Saturday night.
Two of the bodies were crushed inside the car and the police team had to extricate bodies from the mangled remains of car with the help of a cutter.
The police officials maintained that the information was received at around 9.45 am on Sunday about the accident and when the police team visited the spot, they found a car bearing registration number of Haryana lying in a rivulet badly damaged.
While two persons were stuck inside the damaged car, three others were lying outside and all of them had died on the spot.
Police team pulled out the bodies stuck inside the car with the help of cutter. Bodies were sent to Solan Zonal Hospital for postmortem.
The police said that all five deceased were on their way to Shimla and preliminary investigation revealed that driver lost control over the wheel due to which car fell into the gorge. While the accident occurred on Saturday late night, it was spotted by a local woman who was heading towards the forest area to collect fodder for her cows. On seeing the car lying in the gorge, she informed others after which police was informed.