Two persons were killed as a taxi with tourists fell♓ into a river 💙near Singtam in Sikkim on Saturday morning, police said.
A family of five from Kolkata was travelling from Siliguri to Gangtok 🌳when the vehicle plunged into the Rani river at Sang Khola, they said.
The taxi driver and a member of the family were killed 🤪in the accident. While the driver is yet ♔to be identified, the other deceased is 72-year-old Rabindra Nath Paul.
The injured persons were first taken to the nearby district hospital in Singtam, which sent𓄧 them to the Central Referral Hospital in Gangtok.
They were identified as Tapas Paul (33), Krishna Paul (36), Mira 𒀰Paul (60) and a four-year-old girl. The bo𒁃dies of the deceased were kept at the mortuary of the district hospital in Singtam.
Police said the caus✃e of the accident was being invest𓃲igated.
Efforts are also underway to bring out the veℱhicle from the river, they said.
