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    Authorities pull a septic truck containing a body out of the water in the Delta-Mendota Canal.

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At least eight people were plunged into an irrigation canal and likely killed following a crash between a septic truck and a sport utility vehicle carrying farmworkers near Westley in Stanislaus County on July 15, 2008.

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