Thane, Aug 3 (PTI) One person drowned while another remains missing after a car was swept away in Tansa river on Saturday when its water level rose due to discharge from a dam in Thane district, officials said.

Five occupants of the car were partying on the banks of the river in Shahapur when the incident occurred.

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Three occupants managed to save themselves but two others were swept away. Fishermen and a rescue team fished out the body of one of them while a search is on for the other, an official said.

The deceased is identified as Ganpat Chimaji Shelkande, a resident of Kalyan.

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