children have died and two others were hospitalized after a sailboat capsized on Lake Powell in northern Arizona, authorities this morning.
National Park Service officials said the privately owned 25-foot pontoon was being towed by another boater when it was overturned by waves Friday afternoon near the mouth of Navajo Canyon within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Lake Powell is located northeast of Page and near the Arizona-Utah border.
Emergency crews responded to the scene and found some of the 11 passengers atop the overturned sailboats and others in the water and trapped underneath the boat.
Glen Canyon rangers and Page Fire Department personnel help get the injured out of the water and into ambulances and helicopters to be rushed to hospitals. The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, which also responded to the incident, posted an image of the capsized boat on social media.
A woman and two children have died and two others were hospitalized after a sail boat capsized on Lake Powell in northern Arizona, authorities said Sunday.
Coconino County Sheriff’s Office
Authorities said Saturday that 72-year-old Melissa Bean and two 4-year-old boys died at the scene.
The names of the boys haven’t been released yet.
Authorities said two other sailboats passengers remained hospitalized Sunday – a 12-year-old girl in critical condition and a man being treated for undisclosed injuries.
It remains unclear if any of the victims were related, but authorities said families from Utah and Idaho were on the sailboats when it capsized.
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