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Daily Mail on MSNTexas sheriff shares death toll update from flash floodKerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha shares an update on the rising death toll from the devastating flash floods that have swept through Texas, causing widespread damage and prompting an ongoing search and recovery effort across the region.
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In Kerr County, home to Camp Mystic and other youth camps in the Texas Hill Country, searchers have found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children, Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
A 20-month-old toddler has died in last week’s flooding that devastated Kerr County in Texas, according to the child’s family.
Flash floods surged through in the middle of the night, but many local officials appeared unaware of the unfolding catastrophe, initially leaving people near the river on their own.
More than twenty girls were missing from a summer camp on the Guadalupe River after the waterway swelled to historic highs, authorities said.
By JIM VERTUNO, JULIO CORTEZ and JOHN SEEWER KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The grueling, desperate search for 27 missing girls stretched into a third day on Sunday after raging floodwaters surged
The death toll from the catastrophic Texas Hill Country flood has reached 119 with at least 173 confirmed missing in Kerr and Travis counties.
The risk of life-threatening flooding is still high in central Texas with more rain on the way. Searchers now have found 68 bodies in Kerr County, where a wall of water came down the Guadalupe River.
Scammers are known to execute a variety of deceitful schemes, preying on individuals in affected areas,” stated the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.
More than 160 people still are believed to be missing and at least 115 have died in the floods that laid waste to the Hill Country region of Texas. The large number of missing sug