Six people have died and one is missing after the car they were travelling in fell off the road and landed up near the Bhagirathi river on the road to Yamunotri.
The accident occurred on Monday afternoon in Uttarkashi district. The governor Baby Rani Maurya and chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat have expressed deep sorrow at the deaths caused in the mishap.
According to sources, resident of Manpur village near Uttarkashi, Buddhi Prakash worked in the power corporation. As usual, he was driving in his car to Chinyalisaud. At Uttarkashi, his relative Brij Lal took a lift in Prakash’s car along with his wife Roshni, sons Priyanshu, Divyanshu, sister in-law Arti and her five year old daughter.
According to the Uttarkashi district magistrate Ashish Chauhan, Prakash lost control of the car near Nalupani about 20 kilometres from Uttarkashi. The car broke through the parapet and tumbled down to near the Bhagirathi river.
After the local villagers informed the police about the mishap, the district magistrate along with the police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) reached the accident site.
Arti’s daughter was rescued in a serious condition and sent in an ambulance towards the district hospital but succumbed on the way.
The bodies of Buddhi Prakash, Brij Lal, Roshni Devi, Divyanshu and Arti had been recovered by the authorities.
The exact cause of the mishap will be known after the investigation into it.