Sept. 1 (UPI) — Two adults believed to be homeless were killed overnight, drowning in floodwaters caused by heavy rain that hit San Antonio over the weekend, authorities said.<\/p>\n
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters during a press conference<\/a> that the bodies of a man and woman were found Monday near a creek.\n<\/p>\n The identities of the victims have not been released, but McManus described them as homeless and were believed to have been friends.<\/p>\n Flooding is a common natural disaster for San Antonio, according to the city<\/a>. On Sunday, it was hit by heavy rain and thunderstorms, prompting the National Weather Service to issue<\/a> several flash flood warnings and flood advisories.<\/p>\n McManus said police were contacted Monday morning by a person who said their friends were missing, while expressing worry that they may have washed away overnight in the high-flood waters.<\/p>\n A second person who described themselves as a friend of the victims shortly after also contacted police, stating he had found a body near a creek.<\/p>\n “We went down, check it out and, yes, there was an individual down there,” McManus said. “A female, an adult female who got caught up in the water.”\n<\/p>\n Roughly 100 yards down the creek from where the woman’s body was found, lay the body of the man, he said.<\/p>\n The investigation into their deaths is ongoing, McManus added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 1 (UPI) — Two adults believed to be homeless were killed overnight, drowning in floodwaters caused by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,52,3187,1439,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-193397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-u-s","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133216670258525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193397","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=193397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}