A frantic search is on for two missing teenagers after a car with five youngsters inside plunged into a river.
The vehicle veered off the road in Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, at around 8.20pm on Tuesday night.
Police divers are scouring the water nearby as two of the five people in the car – who were all between 16 and 18 – remain unaccounted for.
Three females and two males were in the vehicle at the time of the crash, according to police, and two females and one male made it out.
Those who escaped the car were rushed to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn with non-life-threatening injuries.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said: ‘A male and a female have not been accounted for and searches continue.
A frantic search is on for two missing teenagers after a car with five youngsters inside plunged into a river near a road in Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, pictured
‘North Brink is likely to remain closed for the remainder of the day.
‘We are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.
‘Anyone with information about the incident should use the reference incident 515 of 17 March and report it through the Cambridgeshire website.’
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