Representative image of a road accident.
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New Tehri: Three persons including a woman were killed and eleven others injured on Sunday when their car fell into a gorge in the Tehri district.
The incident occurred near Duwakotidhar on the Gaja-Dandachali-Chamba motor road in the Gaja Tehsil at around 9 am, Narendra Nagar SHO Gopal Dutt Bhatt said.
The car was going towards Chamba.
There were 14 people in the vehicle when it went out of control and fell into a deep gorge, he said.
Two persons identified as Dharamveer Aswal (45) and Ritika (22) died on the spot while another named Jagveer Singh Rawat (40) died at a hospital in Gaja, Bhatt said.
Another injured person is still under treatment at a hospital in Gaja and the rest have been admitted at AIIMS Rishikesh, the official said.
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