Gopeshwar (Uttarakhand), Jul 3 (PTI) A couple returning home from Dehradun died on Sunday when the car in which they were travelling was crushed under a massive boulder rolling down a hill in Chamoli district's Karnprayag, police said.

The accident took place near Bagoli village on the Karnprayag-Gwaldam national highway in the afternoon when Balbir Singh (42) and his wife Savitri Devi (40) were headed for Meta village in nearby Kulsari, they said.

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Deputy Superintendent of Police, Karnprayag, Amit Kumar Saini said the car was completely crushed by the boulder that broke off a hill.

An excavator machine had to be called in to remove it so that the bodies can be pulled out of the wreckage, he said.

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Saini said both husband and wife lost their lives on the spot.

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