Eight dead, five missing in Hildale flash flood

A sad event after a group of people fell victim to a powerful flash flood in southern Utah. Heavy rains in Washington County swept a road away, taking their cars along with it.

As always, please exercise the utmost caution around flash floods, and areas prone to flooding after any amount of rain fall.

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Eight people had died and five remained missing Tuesday morning, the day after an SUV and a van were washed off a road during a flash flood in this polygamous Utah-Arizona border community.

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