Kota, Aug. 6 -- Two suspected drug smugglers died after allegedly jumping from a bridge over the Chambal River while attempting to evade a police chase in Rajasthan's Kota district, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred during a blockade set up under "Operation Route Clearance" by the Budhadit police station team near Mandawara on the Kota-Sawai Madhopur route. According to Kota Rural superintendent of police Sujeet Shankar, the police signalled a Uttar Pradesh-registered car to stop, but the driver accelerated, breached the barricade and fled. Police chased the vehicle for nearly 15 kilometres before finding it abandoned on the Chambal bridge along the expressway. When police searched the area, they found the two men lying critically injured below the bridge. Police said the bridge is approximately 100 feet high, and both sustained fatal injuries from the fall. During the investigation, police said they recovered around 117 kg of poppy husk a few kilometres away from the checkpoint. . Police identified one of the deceased as Raj Singh, a resident of Sangrur in Punjab, while the second was identified as Chain Singh, a resident of Harnawada village in Baran district of Rajasthan. The bodies were handed over to the families after post-mortem examination....