Manager, Cashier Of Private Bank Die After SUV Gets Stuck In Flooded Faridabad Underpass

At least two employees of a private bank -a manager and a cashier-- were killed after their SUV was submerged in water at a flooded underpass in Haryana's Faridabad on Friday (January 13). Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) have been witnessing incessant rainfall for the past two days, due to which several roads and underpasses are inundated.

The incident happened at the Old Faridabad Railway underpass, when victims Punyashray Sharma (48) and Viraj  Dwivedi (26), were returning home in Greater Faridabad from Gurugram in their sports utility vehicle.

According to police, Sharma, who was the manager of HDFC Bank's branch in Gurugram's Sector 31 and Dwivedi, who was a cashier there saw that the underpass was flooded but failed to gauge how high the water was. " At around 11:50 pm, an XUV 700 entered the underpass, ignoring all warnings and got stuck in the deep floodwater, following which water gushed into the vehicle," police said, as per a PTI report.