U.S. Coast Guard recovers body from submerged car near Niagara Falls

A U.S. Coast Guard diver recovered a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in rushing rapids just metres from the brink of Niagara Falls on Wednesday.

The diver was lowered from a hovering helicopter, climbed into the car and pulled out the body of its lone occupant, a woman in her 60s, officials from New York’s State Parks Police said.

It was unclear how the car got into the Niagara River.

Photos and videos taken by bystanders showed the car almost completely submerged with only part of the roof and open trunk hatch visible through the whitewater in the early