Residents observe day of prayer after 69 people killed and 11 girls and one camp counsellor still unaccounted for
Residents in central Texas were observing a day of prayer on Sunday for at least 69 people killed and others missing in Friday’s devastating flash flooding, as a search and rescue operation for survivors began to morph into a grim exercise of recovering bodies.
Relatives continued an anxious wait for news of 11 girls and one camp counsellor still unaccounted for from a riverside summer camp that was overwhelmed by flash flooding from the Guadalupe River, which rose 26ft (8 meters) in 45 minutes on Friday morning after torrential pre-dawn rain north of San Antonio.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/texas-floods-death-toll
Author : Richard Luscombe
Publish date : 2025-07-06 16:16:00
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