Monday , December 23 2024

Khargone: Car falls into Indira Sagar canal, driver dies, search for others continues

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Khargone, 5 December (Hindustan Reporter). A major accident took place in Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh late Thursday evening. Here in Sanawad police station area, an uncontrolled car fell into the canal of Indira Sagar Dam. The flow of water was so strong that the car was washed away for half a kilometer. When people noticed the parking lights of the car floating in the canal around 8 o’clock in the night, they informed the police about the incident. On receiving the information, Sanawad police station reached the spot and started the rescue, but faced problems due to darkness. Police have recovered the car and the driver’s body has also been recovered, but the people in the car are missing. At present they are being searched.

According to the police, a speeding car went out of control and fell into the canal of Indira Sagar Project located at Nalwa in Sanawad police station area at around 6 pm on Thursday evening. It is being told that there were about four to five people in the car. On information from passers-by, Sanawad police station in-charge Indresh Tripathi reached the spot with his team and also informed Superintendent of Police Dharamraj Meena about the incident. Disaster relief team from Khargone and divers from Navgarh on Narmada coast also reached the spot. The village people and the relief team together pulled the car out of the canal after about an hour of hard work. When the car was taken out, the dead body of the driver was found in it. The driver has been identified as bullion trader Sanjay son of Jayantilal Soni (50), resident of Mainroad Jhirnya.

The car was moving at speed

According to the people nearby, the car was moving at a high speed. Suddenly the car falls into the canal from near the bridge. He says that there are no signs on the bridges and culverts built on the canal across the district including Sanawad. Also there are turns at many places. Due to this, the driver does not even get a chance to recover and the vehicle falls into the canal. Many accidents have happened before this also.

According to people, two to three accidents happen every year in Sanavad, Gogawan, Kasravad areas. People die in this. A few years ago, two accidents took place in the canal near Gogawan. Seven members of the family have died in this.