Body found in car buried in tunnel (From Wandsworth Guardian)
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Body found in car buried in tunnel
4:12pm Tuesday 17th July 2012 in National News © Press Association 2013
Heavy rain is thought to have caused a landslide which buried a car in Dorset
One body has been found in a car which was buried in a tunnel by a landslide at Beaminster, and a second one is also suspected to be inside, Dorset Police said.
The man and the woman, who have not been named, were reported missing from the Avon and Somerset area by their concerned families.
Police inquiries traced the pair to the Beaminster area of Dorset on July 7, which coincided with heavy rain and a landslide that closed the Beaminster Tunnel.
Excavations of the mud and debris by the fire service located a car at the entrance of the tunnel at Beaminster, near Dorchester, Dorset.
The A3066 road has been closed at the tunnel since the heavy flooding on July 6 and July 7.
It caused a landslide on the hill above the tunnel that fell on to the road and also caused some structural damage to the tunnel.
