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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maroosha Muzaffar and Louise Boyle

Kentucky flood death toll rises to 30 as governor warns: ‘We’re going to be finding bodies for weeks’

Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal via AP

The death toll from devastating flooding in rural Kentucky has risen to 30 people, authorities have confirmed, as searches for the missing continued.

“We expect that there will be more and that that number will grow,” Kentucky’s Governor Andy Beshear said on Sunday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reported that 37 people remained unaccounted for.

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