US rescue crews have airlifted some 170 people to safety from a remote village in the Grand Canyon after a dam burst following days of heavy rain.
Grand Canyon National Park spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge said water from the Redlands Dam had caused flooding in a side canyon containing Supai village. The area, accessible only by foot, on horseback or by air, is home to 400 members of the Havasupai tribe. Most people have been accounted for but searches will resume later on Monday.
The Redlands dam is on Havasu Creek. The creek feeds the Colorado River, which runs through the Grand Canyon.
After the dam burst, people were flown out of the Supai area and then taken on buses to Peach Springs, about 60 miles (96km) south-west of Supai.
“We were basically stuck up the canyon without our rafts,” Cedar Hemmings, who was among those flown out, told the Associated Press.
“We had no supplies, no food and very little water, we lost everything.”
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