In brief
In the early hours of Thursday, an SUV carrying six passengers and a driver crashed into a 300‑metre gorge in Uttarakhand, India, killing four men—including the driver—and leaving a woman seriously injured and two women missing. Victims were pilgrims from Gujarat, and local police are still searching for the missing passengers.
On Thursday night, an SUV carrying six passengers and its driver slipped into a 300‑metre deep gorge in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing four men and harming a woman.
A local police officer quoted to Xinhua said:
"Four people died, one was seriously injured and two went missing after the SUV they were travelling in fell into a 300‑meter‑deep gorge and eventually landed in a river in India's northern state of Uttarakhand."
The casualties included the driver and three other men, all of whom were from Gujarat and on a pilgrimage in Uttarakhand.
Two women were left seriously injured while two other women remain missing; authorities are still conducting a search operation for the missing passengers.
Officials have confirmed that the injured woman suffers serious injuries and the missing passengers have not yet been located, with search efforts continuing in the surrounding areas of the gorge.
