New Delhi, April 29 -- Edward Eastland, one of the directors of the ill-fated Camp Mystic for Girls in Hunt, Texas, where 25 campers and two counselors were killed in a 2025 flood on Tuesday apoligised to the families of the victims. Eastland made the apology during the second day of a special legislative hearing, where organisers of the all-girls Christian camp were grilled by state lawmakers for their lack of safety measures.

"We tried our hardest that night. It wasn't enough to save your daughters," Eastland said, adding, I'm so sorry."

The Eastland family owns the 100-year-old camp along the Guadalupe River, and they had proposed reopening it in May of this year for the 2026 summer season.

Eastland said he and his father Richard Ea...