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 Camp Mystic, the all-girls Christian summer camp hit by the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas, confirmed on Monday that at least 27 campers and counselors had died, calling the disaster an “unimaginable tragedy.”

The deluge, which began on July 4 and has killed at least 81 people, has become one of the deadliest floods in the United States in the past 100 years. Rescue crews worked through the night and had no plans of slowing down on Monday, even while bracing for the possibility of more downpours and flash flooding. The authorities said on Sunday that they were still looking for at least 41 people who remained missing, including 10 girls from Camp Mystic. 

At least 15 children were among those killed by flooding in Central Texas. Some two dozen girls from a camp on the Guadalupe River remained unaccounted for.

The New York Times

Here’s the latest.

The search for those who were swept away by devastating floods in Central Texas grew increasingly desperate as the death toll jumped to 52 on Saturday night and the likelihood of finding more survivors appeared to diminish.

In Kerr County, where waterways gorged by thunderstorms tore through a Christian girls’ camp, trapped families inside trailer homes and swept people into the currents, the authorities said that some two dozen campers remained unaccounted for, and that there was “no cap” to the broader tally of the missing. State and local officials said the search was now a race against time, but they refused to relinquish their hope that more survivors would be found.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said late Saturday that the girls’ camp and an adjacent river had been “horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I’ve seen in any natural disaster,” and that rushing waters had reached the tops of cabins.

“We won’t stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins,” he said on social media.

As the death toll continued to climb, investigators were trying to identify victims. Among them were 8-year-old and 9-year-old campers, and a 27-year-old man who died trying to save his family by punching a window through their trailer so they could escape the rising waters.

Most of the deaths occurred in Kerr County, an area northwest of San Antonio that has experienced the worst of the flooding. Officials said that 43 people had died; 15 were children. Elsewhere in the state, four people were killed in Travis County, three in Burnet County, one in Kendall County and one in Tom Green County, the authorities said. Thirteen people were also missing in Travis County,  

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