“I can confirm that at that time, we have around 24 dead,” said at a press conference Larry Lethia, the sheriff of Kerr county, later specifying that the balance sheet was well at 24 deaths. A previous assessment reported at least 13 dead, including children and twenty missing in the sudden flood of the Guadalupe river.
The deputy governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, had previously reported an assessment of six to ten dead, including children, as well as twenty missing.
“We are without news of around twenty” children out of the 750 who participated in a summer camp for girls, said Patrick at a press conference.
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“This does not mean that they are among the victims, they could be in a tree or without communication,” he added.
The assistant governor read a message from the director of the summer camp saying that he had undergone “catastrophic level” in the press “and have” neither electricity, nor Wi-Fi “.
According to the authorities, the level of the Guadalupe river, which crosses the area, has risen “nearly 300 millimeters in 45 minutes” during the night, a third of the average annual precipitation of the county of Kerr.
Videos broadcast on social networks show houses and trees carried away by the flood.
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