Two men were found dead and another one rescued after flood waters surged through a slot canyon near the Utah-Arizona border on Saturday morning, authorities said.
The first of the men was found in Buckskin Gulch on Monday, while the second was recovered several miles across the Arizona state line on Tuesday.
A third man in the group was found on Monday afternoon by an air search team with an infrared canyon, and was hospitalized for hypothermia and bodily injury, according to Kane County Sheriff’s Lt. Allen Alldredge. Nearly a dozen other people were airlifted out of the canyon after the floods, he said. A
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