Seven children are feared dead in an accident in which a SUV carrying 29 people fell into a canal in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow on Thursday morning.

All the passengers were returning from a wedding function when the driver lost control of the vehicle and plunged into Indira Canal in Nagram area on the outskirts of the state capital around 3 am. Locals rescued 22 adults while there was no trace of the children -- Sachin, 6, Sunny, 5, Sajan, 8, Saurabh, 8, Aman, 9, Mansi, 4, and Manisha, 4.

Seven children are feared dead in an accident in which a SUV carrying 29 people fell into a canal in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow on Thursday morning.

All the passengers were returning from a wedding function when the driver lost control of the vehicle and plunged into Indira Canal in Nagram area on the outskirts of the state capital around 3 am. Locals rescued 22 adults while there was no trace of the children -- Sachin, 6, Sunny, 5, Sajan, 8, Saurabh, 8, Aman, 9, Mansi, 4, and Manisha, 4.