Houston, July 8 -- The death toll from flash flooding in central Texas has risen to 87, with dozens still missing as search and rescue efforts entered the fourth day, according to local authorities.
Camp Mystic, a 99-year-old all-girls Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, grieved yesterday the loss of at least 27 campers as well as counselors after heavy rains led to multiple flash floods in central Texas on July 4 and July 5.
Ten girls and a counselor from the camp were still unaccounted for as of yesterday morning, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha told a press conference.
Leitha said that as of yesterday morning, 48 adults and 27 children were confirmed dead in Kerr County flooding, many of them pending id...