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The Latest: Body of man missing since flash flooding found

Search and rescue team members carry a body after it was found along Pine Creek, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Zion National Park, near Springdale, Utah. Authorities are searching for other hikers killed in flash flooding that swept through a narrow canyon at Utah's Zion National Park. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Search and rescue team members carry a body after it was found along Pine Creek, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Zion National Park, near Springdale, Utah. Authorities are searching for other hikers killed in flash flooding that swept through a narrow canyon at Utah's Zion National Park. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

By Associated Press September 18, 2015 1 min read

HILDALE, Utah (AP) – The latest on the deadly flash flooding to hit the Utah-Arizona border region (all times local):

8:33 a.m.

Authorities say the body of a 33-year-old man missing since flash flooding hit the Utah-Arizona border earlier this week has been recovered miles from his heavily damaged vehicle.

The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office in northwestern Arizona said in a Friday news release that searchers found the body of Ryan Daniel Mertlich, of Hurricane, Utah, on Thursday. His body was recovered about 7 miles south of the Utah line and 6 miles from where his heavily damaged vehicle was discovered in a flood plain.

Flash flooding Monday in southern Utah has killed at least 19 people in a small polygamous community and Zion National Park. One child remains missing.

Mertlich was last seen Monday evening when he left a relative’s home in the St. George area to return home. The Sheriff’s Office said he was known to drive back roads.