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Zion National Park floods trap seven people in narrow canyon

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ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah — Seven hikers who entered a narrow desert canyon for a day of
canyoneering became trapped when a flash flood filled the chasm with water, killing at least six of them in Zion National Park in southern Utah, officials said Wednesday.

Known as a slot canyon, the passage is as narrow as a window in some spots and several hundred feet deep. Flooding can turn such canyons into deadly channels of fast-moving water and debris in just minutes.

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