“At this point we’re at about 24 fatalities,” Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha told an evening press conference as rescue teams scrambled to locate stranded residents in the region north-west of San Antonio.
Some of the dead were children, Texas Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick said at a previous news conference, The Straits Times reported.
The county sheriff said there were “kids that are still missing,” adding that between 23 and 25 people were unaccounted for.
Lt-Gov Patrick previously said “about 23” girls attending a summer camp in the flooded Kerr County were missing.
They were part of a group of around 750 children at Camp Mystic, a girls summer camp along the banks of the Guadalupe River which rose 8m in 45 minutes with heavy rainfall overnight.
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