Bride among four killed as wedding car plunges into a ravine and is ‘swept away in raging river’
AT least four people including a bride have been killed after a car carrying a wedding party skidded off a road and plunged into a steep rocky ravine.
Emergency services rushed to the scene in Pakistan after the vehicle, which had nine people inside including three kids and a baby, crashed before being swept away by a river, it's reported.
It's understood the driver lost control of the car while turning a sharp bend on the Muzaffarabad-Neelam Valley road before plummeting into a deep gorge.
The bride, 19-year-old Safeena Lateef, was killed in the smash, while the groom, Owais, 22, was injured.
At least three others died in the tragedy - the male driver and two women.
Five kids aged between six months and five were also hurt in the crash and dashed to hospital.
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Police discovered the wreckage of the car and recovered the bodies - but were unable to locate two of them amid fears they had been swept away in the Neelum River.
Horror pictures show the crumpled car on its side after falling into the gorge.
It comes after a newlywed bride died on her honeymoon in a horror golf buggy accident.
Marina Morgan, 29, and her new husband Robbie were on a dream holiday when their buggy overturned while trying to do a U-turn on June 20.
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Mr Morgan, who was driving, was uninjured but his new wife died at the scene.
The accident took place on Whitsunday Boulevard at the northern end of Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia.
A doctor, an off-duty dentist and an off-duty firefighter all desperately tried to save her, performing 35 minutes of CPR, but nothing could be done.
The couple, from Strathfield in Sydney, had got married just 10 days previously.