STATE : Bodies of 2 More Victims Found Under the Ice of Convict Lake

Rescue workers armed with an underwater camera today spotted at least two bodies on the bottom of Convict Lake, where three teen-agers and four adults drowned Monday when a holiday hiking trip went tragically awry.

U.S. Forest Service spokesman Brian Miller said the team of workers sighted the bodies at 10 a.m., resting about 117 feet below the frozen surface of the picturesque fishing lake. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department diving team was attempting to recover them.

Other rescuers recovered one victim on Tuesday. He was identified as U.S. Forest Service employee Clay Cutter, 31, who had run to the lake to rescue others and was himself trapped. Retrieval efforts are expected to continue for two days, the Mono County Sheriff’s Department said.