Nainital: Three teachers, including the president of the Government Teachers’ Union of Haldwani Block, were killed when their car lost control and fell nearly 60 metres into the Shipra River in the Ratighat area on the Almora-Haldwani highway in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district, police said on Sunday.

One injured teacher, who survived the crash, was given first aid at CHC Khairna before being referred to Haldwani in critical condition, the officials said.

According to the police, four teachers, among them 50-year-old Sanjay Singh Bisht and Manoj Kumar, Block President of the Government Teachers’ Union in Haldwani of Almora district, were travelling by car to attend a marriage ceremony on Saturday.

The accident occurred around 7 p.m. on Saturday when the vehicle lost balance on a stretch

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