Grand Canyon boating incident leaves one dead and two injured

By Kaelan Deese

Published April 28, 2021 3:15pm ET

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Grand Canyon boating incident leaves one dead and two injured — FILE - This Oct. 5, 2013 file photo, the Grand Canyon National Park is covered in the morning sunlight as seen from a helicopter near Tusayan, Ariz. An effort by the Grand Canyon to make a lucrative contract more attractive to bidders means the park will defer planned spending on new lighting, cave monitoring, building a composting toilet and tracking an endangered fish that recently reappeared in the canyon, it was announced Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) | AP/Julie Jacobson, File

One person died and two others were injured during a floating trip down the Colorado River inside Grand Canyon National Park, authorities said on Tuesday.

A commercial river trip requested aid at about 11 a.m. on Monday after it spotted a motorized raft overturned near the Kwagunt Rapid, which has a 12-foot drop and roughly a medium difficulty.

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