Another Body Found After Grand Canyon Floods

A second body has been found after a flash flood inundated parts of Grand Canyon National Park on Sunday, reports NBC News. Search crews continued to look for other missing hikers and backpackers. Earlier, the National Park Service said about 15 people were unaccounted for, but the situation was in flux. The NPS was asking for the public's help in gathering information on missing people, and various online outdoors forums were posting updates, notes the Washington Post. Dozens were evacuated on Sunday, some by helicopter from remote areas, as federal, state, and local teams comb the lower canyon and brace for more dangerous flood conditions.

Search teams found the body of a 46-year-old man near Crystal Rapids on the Colorado River late Sunday, though no details have been provided on the second body found on Monday. The flooding also damaged up to 40% of the park's main 12.5-mile water pipeline, leaving campgrounds without running water and triggering strict conservation orders. Large stretches of trails and facilities remain closed. Rain and thunderstorms were in the forecast, notes the AP, with roughly 7 million people across the broader Southwest under flood watches. It's the monsoon, or rainy, season in Arizona, and this year's unusually intense El Nino is making things worse in the canyon.