Rohtak, Sept. 7 -- Two people were swept away after a tractor overturned into an overflowing drain in Dukheri village in Ambala on Saturday, police said. Four people were travelling in the tractor trolley carrying bricks from Naraingarh to Mohra when the vehicle lost control and overturned near the village, they said. Two of them were rescued.

A search operation is underway with the help of villagers, police said. Locals said people had warned the tractor occupants against crossing the waterlogged stretch but they did not heed.

More than 3,000 villages in Haryana are heavily water logged due to heavy rainfall and breaches of canals and drains. In several villages in Hisar, Sirsa, Fatehabad, Bahadurgarh, Ambala and Kurukshetra, residenti...