At least 82 people have died, including 28 children and 41 remain missing after catastrophic flash flooding devastated central Texas on Independence Day, with rescue teams frantically searching for 10 girls and one counsellor from a Christian summer camp swept away by surging waters.
Torrential rains exceeding 10 inches caused the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet within 45 minutes during the early hours of 4 July, submerging cabins at Camp Mystic and triggering one of Texas's deadliest natural disasters in recent memory. The death toll includes 28 children, with 68 fatalities confirmed in Kerr County alone—the epicentre of the flooding.
