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A group of search and rescue workers in the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, July 7, 2025. — Reuters
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Hunt: The death toll from Texas Flash Floods has increased to 119 on Wednesday, with concerns that the number may double, as more than 160 people are missing.
Rescue teams in Central Texas pressed their search through the July 4 flood -sponsored mud and debris, while Governor Greg Abbott ordered the flags to be flown in half of the staff in honor of the victims.
Flood center, Kerr County officials confirmed on Wednesday that 161 people were missing in the county.
Sheriff Larry Litha told reporters, a part of a region in Central Texas is known as “Flash Flood Eli”, the most damage to Kerr County, including at least 95 deaths, including 36 children.
Among them, advisers and 27 girls in a summer camp who disappeared in early Friday when the Gawadalpe River exploded its banks.
Letha said five camps in the camp and a adviser were missing until Wednesday, with another child not affiliated with the camp.
According to an AFP of state information, two dozen other people have been confirmed somewhere else in the state.
More than 2,000 rescue personnel, police and experts have landed on the flood zone, in which Litha describes as an operation of “all hands on the deck”.
Ben Baker, with the Texas game wardens, said that helicopters, drones and dogs were difficult to find due to water, mud and debris.
“When we are trying to recover this, these piles can be very obstructed, and it is very effective to go deep into these piles.”
Meanwhile, questions have been raised about whether the reduction in US President Donald Trump’s government has weakened the warning system, and after dealing with the rescue operation.
During the sometimes stressed news conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials eliminated questions about the pace of emergency response.
“After that, action is going to happen,” said Sheriff Letha.
But officials emphasized that the immediate attention was on the disappearance and seeking the re -involved families.
‘Home home’
Caroli police officer Jonathan Lamb talked about brave rescue by officials and volunteers who expelled hundreds of people from their homes or cars.
The Memon told reporters that officers went to Kerr County early Friday, “waking up to the door” and in some cases, “dragging them out of the windows”, taking them out of the floods of houses and trailers.
“The scary, the more frightening,” he added. “
The National Seasonal Service (NWS) predicted storms in the mountainous country on Wednesday, including a isolated pocket of heavy rainfall.
The village website said in a statement that in the neighboring state of New Mexico, Flash floods killed three people on Tuesday, the village website said in a statement that the river Rioidoso reached the record 20 feet (six meters).
Bodies in the mud
In the city of Hunt, Texas, a team of AFP saw restoration workers collided with rubble piles in which helicopters fly overhead.
24 -year -old Jevir Torus was digging from the mud when he searched for his grandfather’s body and searched for his grandmother.
He also discovered the bodies of the two children, apparently washed along the river.
Trump is about to visit Texas with Melania Trump on Friday.
“We brought a lot of helicopters from all sides … he was a real profession, and he was responsible for expelling many people,” Trump said about the reaction.
Shell Winley, a climate -Central Research Group weather expert, blamed the destruction of geography and abnormal drought, when dry soil absorbs low rainfall.
“This part of Texas, at least in the Care County flood, was extremely, to an extraordinary drought, at least in the Care County Flood …. We know that since May, the temperature has been above average,” Visley told reporters.
