PAYSON –
The nine people on Sunday were killed by a sudden flood in an American canyon, belong to one family from the city of Phoenix. That report American media. One person is still missing.
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The family celebrated a birthday on the shores and in the waters of the East Beyond River in Arizona when disaster struck. A wall of water, the result of a cloudburst a few miles away, dragged the family along.
The sheriff of Gila County was given Saturday afternoon an emergency call and organized a rescue operation. Four bodies were still the same evening to be salvaged. Sunday afternoon took the workers three killed victims. Four campers were found alive in the vicinity of the rampplek.
The national weerinstituut has a ood alert was proclaimed until Monday night for almost the whole of Arizona.