Just two years back, an empty tempo and in 2005, a truck stacked with LPG cylinders fell into the same Savitri river, which has sucked in two buses and a Chevrolet Tavera on Tuesday night in the Mahad tragedy. The vehicles are yet to be found.

The tempo was at least recovered by some fishermen during a summer, however the truck or the cylinders are still missing. Taking this into account, the villagers are casting sincere doubt over whether the state transport buses and the Tavera can be at all fished out of the river.