Jeep plunges into river: 10 drowned

KUSHINAGAR (Uttar Pradesh), SEPT. 2. At least ten people, mostly women and children, were feared drowned after their jeep plunged into the Judwania rivulet in Jataha police circle of Kushinagar district today.

Bodies of four of them have been recovered while search for the remaining six is on, official sources said.

Sources said a 17-member Marwari family of Padrauna township was going to a temple in Kinnarpatti when the mishap took place. The men in the jeep had alighted from the vehicle when it faced some difficulty in passing through a section of the road waterlogged with rainwater. They asked the driver to take the jeep forward with the women and children on board. However, the driver lost control and the vehicle fell into the rivulet, already in spate.

- UNI

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