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Authorities are linking a human foot found in a shoe floating in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring earlier this week to the death of a person last month, The Associated Press quoted park officials as saying.
Park
officials said in a statement that officials do not suspect foul play in the
incident.
The shoe was
recovered from the park’s Abyss Pool on Tuesday after an employee spotted it, The
Associated Press cited a statement by park officials.
Abyss Pool,
located west of the West Thumb area of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet (16 meters)
deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius),
according to park officials.
Park
officials have issued warning to visitors to stay on the boardwalks and trails
in thermal areas, where some of the pools and springs have a thin, breakable
crust covering the scalding and sometimes acidic water.
The Associated
Press reported that about 22 people have died from hot spring-related injuries
in and around the 3,471-square-mile (9,000 square kilometer) national park
since 1890, according to park officials.
In June
2016, a man from Portland Oregon, left a boardwalk in the park’s Norris Geyser
Basin, slipped on gravel and fell into a boiling, acidic spring, according to The
Associated Press.
The park
attracts more than 4 million visitors annually, and is the nation’s first to be
established.