The body of a person missing from a boat that capsized on California's Lake Tahoe has been found, lifting the death toll to eight.
The eight-metre Chris-Craft outboard motor boat with 10 people aboard overturned near the shores of D.L. Bliss State Park during the unexpected weekend storm that swept the alpine lake, according to the US Coast Guard.
Divers recovered the last body on Monday, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office said in a statement posted online.
It said the victims' identities were being kept private pending notification of next of kin.
Weather on the lake was relatively clear before a squall abruptly struck the area, producing 30-knot winds and two-metre swells and plunging air temperatures in a matter of minutes, a Coast Guard spokesperson, Chief Petty Officer Lauren Steenson, told Reuters.
The boat capsized in the vicinity of Bliss State Park off the southwestern shore of Lake Tahoe, the sixth-largest body of freshwater in the United States by volume after the five Great Lakes in the Midwest, and the second-deepest after Crater Lake in Oregon.
Drowning and other accidental deaths have occurred in recent years on Lake Tahoe, but boating accidents with numerous fatalities are rare.
A major outdoor tourist destination straddling the border of California and Nevada in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Tahoe also ranks as the largest alpine lake in North America.
with AP