Seven feared dead after crash in California canal

WESTLEY, Calif. - July 16, 2008 The SUV was carrying farm workers.

Divers have recovered one body. Searchers have located a vehicle but have not been able to remove it from the canal's swift-moving water.

Investigators believe six people were traveling in the SUV based on reports from family and witnesses.

The Delta-Mendota Canal, about 15 miles southwest of Modesto, is about 17-feet deep and 100-feet wide in the area where the crash occurred.

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