SPRINGDALE, Utah — Searchers found the body of missing hiker, Jetal Agnihotri, late Monday in southern Utah’s Zion Nation Park, park officials confirmed.
The 29-year-old Arizonan was swept off her feet by floodwaters as she hiked through The Narrows on Friday, prompting a four-day search extending beyond the park’s southern border, KSL-TV reported.
“She is gone,” the victim’s brother, Pujan Agnihotri, confirmed to KUTV.
BREAKING: 💔In a tragic update, the brother of missing Arizona woman Jatel Agnihotri, confirms “she is gone”. The family is devastated. @KUTV2News pic.twitter.com/SsYhrSPrib
— Arielle Harrison (@ArielleHarrison) August 23, 2022
According to the TV station, park officials said Agnihotri was found in the Virgin River near the Court of the Patriarchs on Monday and later pronounced dead by a medical examiner.
Park officials were first alerted at around 2:15 p.m. Friday that multiple hikers were swept away as a flash flood inundated The Narrows near the Temple of Sinawava, KUTV reported.
“Our deepest sympathy goes out to the friends and family of Jetal Agnihotri,” Jeff Bradybaugh, Zion National Park superintendent, said in a prepared statement.
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