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The Guardian - US
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Anna Betts

Families of Camp Mystic campers and counselors file lawsuits over deaths

buildings along a river
Camp Mystic, following deadly flooding, in Hunt, Texas, on 10 July 2025. Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/Reuters

The families of several campers and two counselors who died in July’s catastrophic Hill Country floods in Texas have filed multiple lawsuits against Camp Mystic and its owners, accusing them of “gross negligence”.

The 4 July floods, which claimed more than 130 lives across the region and was described as some of the US’s deadliest floods in decades, devastated the 99-year-old Christian all-girls camp, located on the banks of the Guadalupe river in Kerr county.

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