A video shows rescue teams in Fresno, California, finally retrieving the bodies of two Thai students from the wreckage of a car that plunged off a cliff in July.
It took a total of eight hours for SAR and the California Highway Patrol's Air Support Unit to successfully move the car and remove two bodies from it on September 1. Video of the recovery was released Thursday.
The victims were confirmed to be Pakapol Bhakapon Chairatnathrongporn, 28, of Thailand and Thiwadee Saengsuriyarit, 24, of Thailand, students enrolled at the University of South Florida..
On July 26, the red rental car traveling on Highway 180 in central California crashed through a guard rail and hurtled off a cliff, falling 500 feet into the Kings River below.
For a little more than a month the mangled vehicle remained lodged in the river rapids with the bodies still inside because of the water's violent flow.