Five people met a watery grave when the car they were travelling in fell into a canal in Aurangabad district of Bihar on Tuesday.

The incident occurred at Chaman Bigha village under the Daudnagar police station area. The deceased were residents of Rajiv Nagar in Patna and were returning after a trip to Gupta Dham — a Shiva temple — in Rohtas district during the lunar month of Sawan.

The mishap seemed to have happened sometime during the early hours of Tuesday, but the local villagers noticed the car in the canal in the morning and informed the police.

“We rushed to the spot after getting the information. Five dead bodies were pulled out of the water-filled canal with the help of professional divers,” Daudnagar station house officer (SHO) Mohammad Azad Khan said.

The dead bodies have been sent for postmortem and the relatives of the deceased have been informed.