27 dead in Texas floods and more than 20 children missing from a girls summer camp

By&nbspEuronews&nbspwith&nbspAP

Published connected 05/07/2025 - 1:06 GMT+2•Updated 18:38

Search and rescue operations continued Saturday aft flooding successful Central Texas killed astatine slightest 18 adults and 9 children. More than 2 twelve girls attending Camp Mystic stay unaccounted for aft months' worthy of dense rainfall fell successful a matter of hours successful Texas.  

Us President Donald Trump calls Texas flooding "terrible" and promises national aid.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a disaster declaration Friday nighttime which will guarantee each counties progressive will "have entree to each tool, strategy, unit that nan authorities of Texas tin supply to them, which will beryllium limitless," said Abbott.

According to a caller decease toll connected Saturday greeting 27 group had been killed and whitethorn are still missing. Authorities said 237 group had been recued truthful far, including 167 by helicopter.

The news follows astatine slightest 25cm of rainfall which poured down overnight successful cardinal Kerr County, causing flash flooding of a adjacent river. 

“Some are adult, immoderate are children,” said Texan Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, “Again, we don’t cognize wherever those bodies came from.” 

Teams conducted dozens of rescues, and emergency responders continued to hunt for those who were unaccounted for. That includes much than 20 girls missing from summertime camps.  

The missing children were attending a Christian campy on nan Guadalupe River.

Helicopters, 9 rescue teams and group connected nan crushed are conducting a monolithic search, according to Patrick. He says nan hunt will proceed overnight.

“I'm asking nan group of Texas, do immoderate superior praying this afternoon. On-your-knees benignant of praying, that we find these young girls,” Patrick said, who added that nan number of confirmed dormant is expected to alteration complete nan coming hours.

A section flood watch issued connected Thursday estimated isolated amounts of up to 17cm of rising water, but that shifted to a flood informing for astatine slightest 30,000 group overnight. 

Texas’ politician Greg Abbot said nan authorities was providing resources to communities dealing pinch nan flooding. 

US President Donald Trump described nan flash floods arsenic "shocking" and "terrible" to reporters connected Friday.