3 killed as car falls into Ramganga river from under-construction bridge in UP’s Bareilly

The car, being navigated utilizing GPS, crashed done a damaged conception of the bridge, constabulary said.

“Earlier this year, floods had caused the beforehand information of the span to illness into the river, but this alteration had not been updated successful the GPS. As a result, the operator was misled and did not recognize the span was unsafe,” Circle Officer of the country Ashutosh Shivam said.

“In addition, the lack of information barriers oregon informing signs connected the under-construction span compounded the danger, starring to the fatal accident,” Shivam said.

The victims, whose identities are yet to beryllium confirmed, were travelling astatine precocious velocity erstwhile their car fell into the river. Police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Badaun’s Dataganj constabulary presumption rushed to the scene. They recovered the conveyance and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.

The ellipse serviceman said that the bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further probe into the substance is underway.