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Texas floods leave 24 dead, dozens missing

Texas floods leave 24 dead, dozens missing

In USA, at least 24 people have been killed in Texas after heavy rain caused flash flooding, according to local media reports. Officials have also said dozens are missing from a girls' camp in Texas. According to Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, about 23 of the roughly 750 girls attending Camp Mystic, a summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, were among the missing. He said that search crews had been mobilised to find the unaccounted, including the missing girls. As much as 10 inches of heavy rain fell in just a few hours overnight in central Kerr County, causing flash flooding of the Guadalupe River.Search and rescue operations are underway amid rapid floods in the Guadalupe River.. Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha confirmed the death of 13 people in the floods. Officials are still working to identify the dead bodies.

An official in the city of Kerville told reporters the flooding struck before dawn "over a very short period of time that could not be predicted, even with the radar".Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said that at least 400 people were on the ground helping in the response. Nine rescue teams, 14 helicopters and 12 drones were being used in the search, and Patrick said some people were being rescued from trees. This comes as the social media pleas of people trying to locate their loved ones continue to pour in. A river gauge at Hunt recorded a 22-foot rise (6.7 meters) in about two hours, according to Bob Fogarty, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Austin/San Antonio office. Hunt is where the Guadalupe River forks out.


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