By Associated Press - Monday, November 7, 2016

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Officials say a hiker became trapped in a canyon about 40 miles south of Las Vegas.

The Review-Journal reports (https://bit.ly/2efrfGX ) that Las Vegas police Lt. Grant Rogers say reports came in about a missing or trapped hiker in Keyhole Canyon just after 4 p.m. Sunday. The Search and Rescue unit responded and was working to free the man Sunday night.

Rogers says the man was trapped by ropes near a dried-out waterfall.



Keyhole Canyon is about halfway between Boulder City and Searchlight in southern Clark County.

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Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal, https://www.lvrj.com

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