{"id":100626,"date":"2025-07-28T23:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100626\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:44:15","slug":"othello-tunnels-closed-after-fatal-fall-into-coquihalla-river-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100626\/","title":{"rendered":"Othello Tunnels closed after fatal fall into Coquihalla River &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<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.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/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.europesays.com\/us\/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>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.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Lenea Grace, executive director of the Lifesaving Society BC &amp; Yukon, said the tragedy is a good reminder about how dangerous the water can be.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11306371\/que-sean-feucht\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/b453ae5350ddaef57def39f5fee8fa9fd6a69b81f26b0c07eaf6d59123e67015.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCity fines Montreal church for hosting MAGA-affiliated singer Sean Feucht\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11306688\/british-columbia-cougar-attack\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-175118846.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tB.C. man attacked by cougar has minor injuries after he says he punched it\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThus far in British Columbia, we have unfortunately seen 24 drownings that we have been tracking, and unfortunately, five have taken place during the month of July so far in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven one drowning death is too many. Unfortunately, we do see the highest amount of drownings between May and September \u2026 We see the majority of drownings take place in natural bodies of water here in B.C.\u201d<\/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<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size RCMP say planning efforts are underway to recover the body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,65577],"class_list":{"0":"post-100626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-othello-tunnels"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114933521949300082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}