11 feared missing in Grand Canyon flood are safe: police

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PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) — Eleven hikers feared missing after flash flooding that deluged a remote Grand Canyon village on an Indian reservation have been located and are safe, police said Tuesday.

A spokesman for Coconino County Sheriff's Department told AFP that the individuals had been found and were accounted for.

"It's good news. Yesterday we believed there were 11 people unaccounted for. We are confident that those 11 people have been located, identified and are safe," spokesman Gerry Blair told AFP.

Rescuers from the US National Park Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs were continuing to comb the creek where a muddy, raging torrent caused by days of heavy rain swept through Havasu Canyon, Arizona on Sunday.

Blair said most visitors to...