Dera Ghazi Khan, April 27: Six members of a family, including two women and four children, drowned when their jeep fell into a canal at Yaroo village, some 12km from Dera Ghazi Khan, on Sunday.

Police said 13 people were travelling in the jeep out of which seven were rescued while six others drowned.

The bodies of two women and three children had been recovered, while efforts were on to recover the body of another child.

The family, which was probably heading to some place to attend a marriage, had a brief stop on the bank of the canal to buy something from a shop there. The driver left the vehicle after applying the hand brake. The jeep rolled into the canal when someone inside it released the hand brake by mistake.

Those drowned in the D.G. Khan canal were identified as Haleema Mai (70), Sakeena (50), Khadija (10), Abdur Rauf (8), Mohammad Ayub (5) and Maryam (7).

The body of Khadija has not been recovered as yet, police said, adding that villagers and police were making efforts in this regard.