Five engineering students dead as car falls into gorge near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand

Four of the victims are identified to be engineering students while a fellow woman passenger survived the fall with minor injuries.

(L-R) Rescue operations being underway, a car falls into a gorge near Mussoorie-Dehradun road.  Photo | EPS

DEHRADUN: Five people were killed in a road accident after a vehicle fell down into a deep gorge near Chunakhal on the Mussoorie-Dehradun road at around 5 am on Saturday.

Four of the victims are identified to be engineering students while a fellow woman passenger survived the fall with minor injuries.

Speaking to The New Indian Express, Fire Station Officer Dheeraj Singh Tadiyal said, "On receiving the information of the incident at around 5:30 a.m., we rushed to the accident scene with the police force. The relief and rescue operations are currently underway with the help of locals. The injured are being taken to nearby hospital"

The victims have been identified as Aman Singh Rana, 22, (IMS University), Dingyash Pratap Bhati, 23, (IMS University), Tanuja Rawat, 22, (IMS University), Ashutosh Tiwari resident of Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh), Hridyansh Chandra, 24, (D.I.T. University).

Meanwhile, the injured woman who survived the crash has been identified as 24-year-old Nayanshree, a student of IMS University, a native of Meerut.