Blazing car belonging to missing family of four found in Chhattisgarh's Kanker

"We are currently probing the surroundings as well as trying to determine the whereabouts of the missing family, the police said, adding that police were also looking into a possible murder angle.

Kanker (Chhattisgarh):In a mysterious incident, a burning car, with all its passengers missing, was found near Chawadi village in Charama tehsil of Chhattisgarh's Kanker district late on Wednesday night. While no victims were found in the car at the time, it has been revealed as per primary investigation that four passengers had set out from Raipur in the vehicle, said the police.

"The car belongs to a family living in Pakhanjur (also in Kanker), who had left Raipur in the car to return home. Although the vehicle was found burning near Chawadi village in Charama, all four family members, a couple and their two children, are missing. It was scoured by the forensic team, but nothing significant has been recovered yet," Charama Police Station in-charge Nitin Tiwari said.

"We are currently probing the surroundings as well as trying to determine the whereabouts of the missing family, the police said, adding that police were also looking into a possible murder angle. The family resided in village PV 42 of Pakhanjur. Meanwhile, a heart-wrenching incident on Wednesday saw a man in Rajasthan's Jalore district jumping to his death, along with his wife and five children, in the Narmada canal. The incident occurred near Siddheshwar village in the district where after a local informed the police through its helpline number. Till Wednesday, only the body of an eight-year-old son of the couple had been recovered.