Uttarakhand: 6 dead after car falls into gorge, CM Dhami extends grief 

A heart-wrenching incident happened in Uttarakhand, when six dead were feared dead after their car skidded off the road and rolled nearly 500 metres down a gorge near Lakhanpur on the Dharchula-Lipulekh Road on Tuesday morning.

Car falls into river in Uttrakhand, kills 6

Pithoragarh Superintendent of Police (SP) Lokeshwar Singh said the incident took place on the Dharchula-Lipulekh road late in the evening when the victims were returning after a 'darshan' of Adi Kailash.

Taking notes from the incident, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami expressed his grief over the demise of the people.

Rescue ops on!

A team from the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) arrived at the scene and launched a rescue operation to look for the missing occupants of the vehicle, according to the sources.

The rescue operation was suspended as the evening set in and will resume on Wednesday morning.

Owing to the steep gorge through which the car went down, the rescue personnel couldn’t reach the missing occupants on Tuesday.

Further reports are still awaited.