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PHOENIX – Phoenix Fire crews have found the body of a man who fell into a Phoenix canal Wednesday night.

Phoenix Police spokesman James Holmes said officers received a call reporting a man had fallen into a canal near the 101 and McDowell.

Police said initial reports indicate the man had been drinking with a small group of  friends when he went into the canal and did not come out.

Authorities found the man’s body around 6:15 p.m. Air15 video showed crews pulling the body from the canal.

Police said they are treating this as an accidental drowning.

PHOENIX – Authorities say a woman was found dead in a pool in Ahwatukee Tuesday morning.

Fire crews were called to a home near Chandler Boulevard and 32nd Street around 6 a.m.

Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Jacobs said the 46-year-old woman was found in the pool and pronounced deceased.

Police say it appears to be an accidental drowning and alcohol may have been a factor.

Dive teams recovered the body of a 21-year-old Turkish woman Thursday night who drowned along with her friend Wednesday in Lake Powell.

At about 6:30 p.m., dive teams found Betul Eryildirim, 21, in 30 feet of water, close to where the other woman was found a day prior.

Kane County sheriff’s Sgt. Alan Alldredge said a boater discovered the body of Merve Tokel, also 21, floating face down in the lake on the Utah-Arizona border about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday. Witnesses told investigators that Tokel had last been seen with Eryildirim swimming near a beach in Crappie Cove, not far from Bullfrog Marina.

“Both just walked down to the beach to swim for a couple of hours,” Alldredge said.

Deputies, divers and a helicopter had looked for Eryildirim into Wednesday evening before suspending the search, which resumed Thursday morning and continued into the afternoon. The Lake Powell National Park Service dive team and a Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter assisted the Sheriff’s Office.

Alldredge said the victims’ bodies have been sent to the Utah State Medical Examiner’s Office for further investigation. Foul play was not suspected. Since there were no witnesses, police can only assume they were accidental drownings.

Alldredge said the two Turkish women were employed for the summer by Aramark, a national food service company, and working in the Bullfrog area at a concession stand at the park. The women were good friends, with their birth dates only eight days apart, according to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.

TUCSON  (KGUN9 TV) – The Pima County Sheriff’s Department investigating a drowning on the northwest side now believe the victim, a 56-year old woman, may have taken her own life.

PCSO tells 9 On Your Side deputies responded to a home at Orange Grove and Camino de la Tierra at about 5:30 this morning. Detectives say a family members called 911 to report  a drowning.

When deputies arrived, they say they found the woman’s body in a swimming pool.

Deputies also tell 9 On Your Side, shortly after, they found a suicide note inside of the house. Deputies did not find evidence of foul play.

PCSO will stay at the scene until they complete their investigation.

MESA, AZ – Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that there is one drowning victim on the Salt River.

The incident occurred at the Mud Cliffs at Salt River around 3 p.m. Saturday.

Witnesses say that the victim 24-year-old John George of Chandler, was tubing on the river and was separated from his group.

He let go of his raft and attempted to swim up stream, but witnesses believe he went underneath the water as he got too tired to swim.

Deputies responding to the scene performed life saving measures until medical aid arrived.

He was pronounced dead on the scene.

According to Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the man may have been underwater for up to four minutes before being rescued.