At least five people have drowned after a car plunge into canal at Bihars Chappra district on Friday.According to the officials, incident happened near Karna Kudaria village under the boundaries of Mashrak police station area on Thursday.Superintendent of Police (SP) Saran District Gaurav Mangla informed that the deceased has been identified as Dinesh Singh, Lal Babu Shah, Sudhir Kumar and Suraj Kumar were residents of Baikunthpur in Gopalganj district, while Ram Chandra Shah hailed from Parampur Masrakh in Chhapra district.Soon after getting the information about the mishap, officials from Masrakh police station reached the incident spot and recovered bodies from the canal. Bodies have been sent for the post-mortem at Sadar Hospital in Chappra.As per preliminary investigation, it was found that deceased were on their way from Gopalganj district after attending Shraddh (death rituals) ceremony, when driver lost the control of the vehicle, which followed the mishap.Nandkishore Kumar, son of deceased Ramchandra Sah, told ANI that his father used to work as a confectioner. “He had gone to his son-in-law, Lalbabu Sah, a resident of Sonwalia under the Baikunthpur police station area of Gopalganj district. From there he had gone to Baghi village in the Baikunthpur area of Gopalganj district to visit the in-laws of local resident Dinesh Singh,” said Kumar.Further details into the matter are awaited.
