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| Car seen plunging into River Kent in Kendal | Car seen plunging into River Kent in Kendal |
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| A search and rescue operation is under way after a car reportedly plunged into a river in Kendal, Cumbria. | |
| Firefighters, police and rescue volunteers are searching both banks of the River Kent after the vehicle was apparently swept away. | |
| Eyewitnesses reported seeing a man clinging to the roof of the car after it went into the river at Aynam Road at about 15:50 GMT. | |
| Cumbria Fire Service said poor weather conditions were hampering the search. | |
| Station manager Conrad Leather said the search by fire officers and volunteers had been "scaled back" because of heavy wind and rain and the coastguard had sent a helicopter to carry out aerial surveys. | |
| The fire service has also set up a boom at Horse Bridge, but both the car and the man remain unaccounted for. | |
| BBC Cumbria's Martin Lewes said rainfall had swollen the river. | BBC Cumbria's Martin Lewes said rainfall had swollen the river. |
| He said the river could be up to 8ft (2.4m) deep in places and the search was moving downstream. | |
| The reporter who is at the scene said: "The river is about as high it gets before people start to seriously worry about it. | |
| "There is a mystery about how the car managed to leave the road which is a fairly straight road along the side of the river. | |
| "And the mystery is where the car has got to and what's happened to the man who was seen with it and anyone else who was seen aboard." |