CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say they have found the body of a Kansas woman who went missing Sunday after skydiving in northern Oklahoma.
Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Wendi Marcy on Monday said authorities have alerted the Kansas woman’s family they found the body, but referred The Associated Press to county Sheriff Charlie Dougherty for other details.
Marcy said she did not know the name of the woman. Dougherty could not be immediately reached by phone or email.
Television station KFOR reports multiple law enforcement agencies had been searching for the woman after her parachute was found in a wooded area near Cushing, Oklahoma.
Marcy says she does not know how authorities identified the woman’s body.
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CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — Crews in Oklahoma are searching for a missing skydiver whose parachute has been recovered.
Local media report the skydiver, a woman in her 20s from Kansas, jumped around 3:45 p.m. Sunday near Cushing. Her parachute was found in a wooded area, but she wasn’t with it.
Red Cross volunteers in Cushing supporting search and rescue for missing skydiver. pic.twitter.com/TnOrN9ufBr
— Red Cross Oklahoma (@RedCrossOK) July 25, 2016
Multiple law enforcement agencies and the Red Cross are assisting in the search, and Lincoln County Sheriff Charlie Dougherty says crews will be working through the night.