<p>Lucknow: An SUV plunged into a canal in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district on Sunday leaving eleven members of a family dead.</p><p>The deceased included women and children and one child is also reportedly missing.</p> .Canada-based driver of SUV that hit marathoner Fauja Singh arrested, sent to judicial custody.<p>Police said that the ill-fated jeep carrying 16 members of a family, residents of Seehagaon, were on their way to a Shiva temple for ‘jalabhishek’ (offering sacred water), when the driver lost control on the bridge over Saryu canal and the vehicle plunged into the waters breaking the railings.</p><p>The driver and three others managed to come out of the vehicle and swim to safety however the rest who were trapped inside, suffocated to death.</p> .<p>Sources said that a few locals jumped into the canal to rescue the trapped people but by the time they broke the window and took them out they were already dead. </p><p>One child was reported to be missing in the incident, sources said.</p><p>Eleven bodies were later fished out of the canal and efforts were on to trace the missing child.</p><p>According to the eye witness accounts, the vehicle appeared to be over speeding when the incident happened amid heavy rains. </p><p>Police said that they were investigating the cause of the incident.</p>
<p>Lucknow: An SUV plunged into a canal in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district on Sunday leaving eleven members of a family dead.</p><p>The deceased included women and children and one child is also reportedly missing.</p> .Canada-based driver of SUV that hit marathoner Fauja Singh arrested, sent to judicial custody.<p>Police said that the ill-fated jeep carrying 16 members of a family, residents of Seehagaon, were on their way to a Shiva temple for ‘jalabhishek’ (offering sacred water), when the driver lost control on the bridge over Saryu canal and the vehicle plunged into the waters breaking the railings.</p><p>The driver and three others managed to come out of the vehicle and swim to safety however the rest who were trapped inside, suffocated to death.</p> .<p>Sources said that a few locals jumped into the canal to rescue the trapped people but by the time they broke the window and took them out they were already dead. </p><p>One child was reported to be missing in the incident, sources said.</p><p>Eleven bodies were later fished out of the canal and efforts were on to trace the missing child.</p><p>According to the eye witness accounts, the vehicle appeared to be over speeding when the incident happened amid heavy rains. </p><p>Police said that they were investigating the cause of the incident.</p>