Five die as car plunges off a cliff into the Tsivil River in Russia's Chuvashia

According to Interfax, the incident was reported by Novocheboksarsk head Alexander Alekseev on his channel on the Max platform. He said five young men presumably died when their car went off a cliff and sank in the Tsivil River near the industrial zone. One version holds that they had come to fish.

Lenta.ru, citing the Telegram channel Shot, writes that the group was three young men and two young women who drove a Niva to the river near Novocheboksarsk on the evening of Friday, 6 November. After 22:00 they stopped responding to relatives, and acquaintances say the car's last recorded location was by the river. Rescuers with two vehicles are working at the scene.

The outlets differ on the purpose of the trip (fishing per Interfax, a joyride per Lenta) and on the group's makeup: Interfax speaks of five young men, Lenta of three men and two women. The reports have not been independently verified.