Flash-flood toll is still increasing
NZPA-Reuter Loveland, Colorado
Ground searchers have descended into the twisting, devastated Big Thompson River canyon to recover more bodies of holidaymakers and campers buried in mud and tangled in the debris of a week-end flash flood. At least 99 people were killed in the flood caused by a freak cloudburst that sent a 3 metre-high wall of water through the Rocky Mountain canyon. The victims were swept away in minutes. Many had ignored warnings to leave.
Larimer County Sheriff 'Bob Watson, yesterday said that 78 bodies had been brought to the Loveland mortuary, and an additional 21 victims taken to an American Legion post at Estes Park, at the north end of the canyon. He said searchers expected to find more bodies.
The “once in a century” storm, which began on Saturday night, ended before dawn on Tuesday when the clouds lifted from the sides of the canyon, 10,000 feet above sea level in the mountains. Huge troop-transport helicopters flew in to aid in the recovery of bodies.
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