{"id":364246,"date":"2026-06-17T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364246\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:03:43","slug":"man-found-dead-in-fresno-canal-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364246\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead in Fresno canal identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 The man who was found dead in a Fresno County canal on Sunday has been identified by the Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CHP, officers checked on a vehicle parked near the canal on Highway 43 and Caruthers Avenue at around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. After a search of the area, they found the body of a man in the water nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1158\" height=\"652\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Man-found-in-Fresno-County-canal.jpg\" alt=\"Man found in Fresno County canal after truck left abandoned\" class=\"wp-image-3053012\"  \/>Man found in Fresno County canal after truck left abandoned<\/p>\n<p>The man was later pronounced dead. The coroner\u2019s office named him on Monday as 46-year-old Karandeep Sihota of Selma.<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown what circumstances led to him being found in the water. Officials say, at this point, all signs point to the incident being an accident.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 The man who was found dead in a Fresno County canal on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-364246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}