The incident occurred late on Friday night on the Bairgarh-Sach Pass-Killar road in Churah subdivision, but locals came to know about it on Saturday afternoon.
The accident occurred when the car was going towards the snow-bound Sach Pass, one of the toughest stretches in Himachal Pradesh, the officials said.
BJP MLA from Churah Hans Raj told PTI that a rescue operation was under way, but due to the steep slope and bad weather conditions, the bodies could not be retrieved.
The area is remote, topography is tough and there is no phone signal in the area, he added.
The rescue operation resumed on Sunday morning and the locals along with police formed human chains along with ropes to get down to the accident spot, the operations to bring to bodies up to the road are under way, officials said.
According to preliminary information, two families had met in Dalhousie and decided to enjoy the snow in the Sach Pass region in a shared taxi.
Both families, accompanied by the taxi driver, departed on Friday for the Bairagarh-Killar route via Sach Pass and when the taxi did not return to Dalhousie even after the scheduled time, the vehicle owner checked the vehicle’s GPS location. According to the GPS data, the vehicle appeared to be stationary at a single spot near the Kalavan area, showing absolutely no signs of movement.
Following this, a local search operation was initiated, which raised the apprehension that the vehicle had met with an accident.
The deceased have been identified as Arvind Chandrakar his wife Prachi, sons Darsh and Akshad, all residents of Bengaluru, PG Karthikeyan, his wife Manimala and son Nandan, all residents of Karnataka and the taxi driver Vishwas, a resident of Banikhet from Chamba in Himachal.
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