Four passengers, three of them brothers, died after their car fell into a canal here, a senior police official said on Thursday. According to police, the car was travelling from Mahmoodpur to Deeg when the accident occurred near the Nahla Deviya bridge late on Wednesday night.

"There is a sharp turn on the road. The driver possibly failed to negotiate the turn at high speed and hit a structure ahead," Superintendent of Police (Rural) Suresh Chandra Rawat said. The vehicle overturned and plunged into a nearly six-metre-wide canal, he said, adding that it overturned again after falling into the water.