Botad, June 18 -- At least four people died and three others are missing after an Eco car carrying nine passengers was swept away in a river in Gujarat's Botad district, an NDRF official said on Wednesday. Two people were rescued, while search operations are still ongoing.

Inspector Vinay Kumar Bhati, Team Commander of the 6th Battalion of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), said the incident happened during early hours and involved a vehicle that was possibly operating as a shared tempo.

Speaking to ANI, NDRF Team Commander Inspector Vinay Kumar Bhati of the sixth Battalion, said, "My team was deployed in Rajkot. We received information in the morning that a few people were stuck in Botad and needed to be rescued. We rushed to...