India, Aug. 27 -- A family of four drowned after their car was swept away while crossing a flooded culvert in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district, officials said on Wednesday.

Heavy rains lashed four districts of Bastar division with over 68 people having been evacuated to safer places in the last 36 hours in Bastar, Bijapur and Dantewada districts.

Helicopters, boats and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel were involved in the rescue operations, they said.

In Bastar district, the four family members drowned after their car was swept away by strong currents while crossing the flooded Kanger Nala in the Kanger Valley National Park on Tuesday evening, a senior police official in Jagdalpur said.

The deceased were identified as Raje...