ERWIN, Tenn. (Gray News) – A body that was buried in North Carolina was washed into Tennessee due to flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in September, according to Erwin Police Chief Regan Tilson.
Officials said the body was buried in Whitson Cemetery in Yancey County in 2006.
The flood waters washed the body to Unicoi County.
Details about the identification of the body were not released.
Helene brought widespread devastation to western North Carolina, causing 1,400 landslides and damaging over 160 water and sewer systems, according to the state budget office.
It also disrupted transportation networks across the region by damaging at least 6,000 miles of roads and more than 1,000 bridges and culverts, the budget office said.
Helene was the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005.
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