5 people were dead and 1 injured after a car fell into a canal in the Jagadevpur, Siddipet district, Telangana. The injured person was sent to a hospital for treatment and bodies were recovered from the canal.
Their identities have not been known yet but the probe is underway, said Siddipet CP Swetha.
The incident happened in Munigadapa of Jagadevpur mandal when the car with six occupants in it was returning to the family's native place Bibinagar in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district after a pilgrimage to Vemulwada, officials said.
Based on preliminary investigation, a senior police official told PTI over phone that the car driver lost control over the vehicle and it initially hit a culvert on the road and fell into the canal.
The vehicle turned turtle inside the canal resulting in death of five members of the family on the spot, the police official said.
Another person, who was injured, has been shifted to a hospital in Hyderabad for treatment, the official added.
The bodies were taken out and shifted to a government hospital in Gajwel town for conducting post-mortem.
