{"id":30374,"date":"2025-07-28T22:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30374\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:19:17","slug":"othello-tunnels-closed-after-fatal-fall-into-coquihalla-river-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30374\/","title":{"rendered":"Othello Tunnels closed after fatal fall into Coquihalla River &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCMP say planning efforts are underway to recover the body of a 19-year-old man believed to have died after falling into the Coquihalla River near the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/othello-tunnels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Othello Tunnels<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mounties say the man fell into the water at Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park shortly after 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Search-and-rescue crews were able to rescue a bystander who got trapped while trying to find the victim.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Coquihalla Canyon Park and Othello Tunnels to partially re-open in July'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/JPEG_CANYON_RESTORATION_JUNG.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:30<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCoquihalla Canyon Park and Othello Tunnels to partially re-open in July\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>However, an extensive search of the area, which included the use of a drone, was unable to locate the man.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Police believe he was trapped below the surface due to powerful currents in the river.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>An RCMP dive team has attended the site to help with planning, but a recovery operation won\u2019t happen until a later date due to the steep terrain and fast-flowing water.<\/p>\n<p>The Othello Tunnels have been closed until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCMP say planning efforts are underway to recover the body of a 19-year-old man believed to have died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,23689,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-30374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-othello-tunnels","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}