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Police at the scene where four people died yesterday after their car plunged into the water. Rui Vieira/PA Wire
Wales

Four family members killed after car plunges into Welsh reservoir

Driver of a second vehicle has been questioned on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death.

POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING an incident in which four people died after the car they were travelling in plunged into the Bwlch y Gle Dam at Llanidloes in Wales yesterday.

Of the five people travelling in the vehicle, only the driver – a woman – survived. A woman, 84, a man, 66, and two teenagers were killed in the incident, BBC Wales reports.

In the video below, Superintendent Huw Meredith of the Dyfed-Powys Police told reporters that two vehicles were involved in a collision which resulted in one of the cars, a Peugeot 807, leaving the road and entering the water.

Huw said that the five people in the Peugeot had been on holiday in the area. Although police cannot release their names until all next of kin had been informed, Huw said that the five are known to have come from south Wales.

A local man arrested at the scene on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death has been released on bail. Police are appealing to anyone who has any information regarding the incident to contact them.

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