The authorities were searching for at least one other missing person after the incident last Saturday afternoon in the Verde River near Payson, about 145km north-east of Phoenix, Water Wheel Fire and Medical District fire chief Ron Sattelmaier said. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The flood waters hit the bathers with almost no warning

At least nine people from one family have been killed in flash floods after monsoon-like rains swept through a swimming hole in the US state of Arizona, local media say. The National Weather Service in Phoenix said that most of Arizona was under flash flood watch until Monday evening, warning that “heavy rains can produce flash flooding of low lying, normally dry areas such as washes.”
A flash flood near Payson, Arizona, leaves at least nine people dead and one person missing, according to the Gila County Sheriff's Office.