Five persons are still missing after a car they were travelling in fell into swollen Trishuli river in Darechowk VDC of Chitwan district on Tuesday night.

The car fell down the road in Mugling-Naubise section of Prithvi highway. The car with registration number Ba 3 Cha 2494 had plunged into the river.

Five persons include Saroj Baidya, Sunita Baidya, Shaswat Baidya, Kalpana Shrestha and Pritha Shrestha were travelling in the car, according to police. They were travelling to Kathmandu from Pokhara.