India, Feb. 11 -- Three men died in eastern Maharashtra's Butibori town on Monday evening when a 34-year-old man, learning how to drive, possibly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake and drove the car into a well, police said.

The three were found dead on Tuesday morning after someone noticed the car in the well.

Police said Sajan Chavan (27), his elder brother Suraj Chavan (34) and their friend Sandeep Chavan (27) were in the car at the time of the accident. They had come to the Bal Bharati Ground in Butibori, a satellite town of Nagpur, to teach Suraj how to drive.

It was Suraj's first time behind the wheel. At one point, he appears to have pressed the accelerator, causing the vehicle to speed up uncontrollably before veering...