Searchers find body at bottom of canyon

PHOENIX (AP) — Crews searching for a Japanese tourist found a body at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, but it was not known if the body was that of the visitor.

Tomomi Hanamure, 24, of Tokyo, has been missing since Monday, when she checked in at a lodge in the village of Supai on the canyon's floor. But she apparently never slept in the room, and her belongings were still there Tuesday morning, said Coconino County sheriff's spokesman Gerry Blair.

The body found Saturday was reported by a Supai resident, who notified deputies of a person floating in water just north of the village.

Blair said he did not know whether the body was male or female.