A complicated effort to recover the bodies of two missing Thai exchange students who are thought to be trapped in a car that plummeted hundreds of feet into the raging Kings River has just become even more fraught. While watching a TV news clip on the missing Thai couple, a Fresno County search-and-rescue team member spotted a California license plate and car parts in some brush. It was on Aug. 8, while watching a video clip about efforts to organize a recovery plan, that the search-and-rescue team member spotted the license plate and made a note of its number — 6XMM431. Wang and Song were last seen driving their white Ford Focus, license plate 6XMM431. No bodies have been found in the Kings River, but park officials down-river will continue to check.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 14, 2017 20:26 UTC