Bhopal: Rain rage continued in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday as well. A number of roads and bridges remained inundated. Water gushed in low-lying areas. The situation is worst in Dewas, Vidisiha and Sehore.

In Sehore, three members of a family, including a two-and-a-half-year-old child, were washed away while taking a bath at a stop dam in Sehore district on Sunday late evening. The bodies of the parents were found later. Rescue operations for the missing child continued until late in the night, and they will start early on Monday again to find the missing child.The incident took place at Surai Jholiapura village under Rehti police station of the district at around 3 pm.

Four members of a family, including Mohammed Ata Ur Rehman, 40, his wife Rafat, 35, and their two children, 10-year-old Rizwar and 2.5-year-old Oraan, all residents of Malibaya village, went to the stop dam in Surai Jholiapura village."There was a sudden increase in water levels, and all of them were washed away. The ten-year-old child was rescued by locals, but both his parents and his 2.5-year-old sibling were washed away.

The bodies of the parents were found. The rescue operation for the missing child continued until late in the night, but the child could not be found," Rehti police station incharge, Rajesh Kahare, told TOI.He added, "We will again start the rescue operations from Monday morning to find the missing child."In Dewas, two persons were killed and as many were critically injured after a car plunged into a river on Sunday, police said.

The accident occurred on the Indore-Betul highway near Mokhapipalya village in Bagli tehsil, an official said. The car was crossing the culvert when a truck approached from the opposite direction, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle and fall into the Kalisindh river, Kamlaur police station in-charge Upendra Nahar said.He said locals helped rescue all four occupants from the submerged car and rushed them to the government hospital in Bagli, where doctors declared two of them dead.The other two injured persons were referred to Indore for further treatment, the official said. "The car doors got jammed after it fell into the river, delaying the rescue efforts. Locals had to break the windows to pull out the occupants," Nahar said.(With agency inputs)