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Texas Floods Kill at Least 82 People, with Dozens Still Missing and More Rains Forecast

HeadlineJul 07, 2025

Search and rescue missions are continuing in central Texas, where the death toll from catastrophic flooding has reached 82 people, with dozens still missing. In the most devastated area, Kerr County, at least 40 adults and 28 children died in the flooding. Among those still missing are at least 10 girls from Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River, which officials say swelled and rose some 26 feet in under an hour Friday amid torrential downpours.

Survivors and rescue workers have described harrowing scenes as people clung on to trees and took refuge on rooftops to avoid being swept away in the floods. This is Ilda Mendoza, who joined other volunteers to help search for victims.

Ilda Mendoza: “We found two bodies: a little girl and a little boy. And then we finally came up here, and we found the dad that we were looking for. And today we came back because we haven’t found the wife.”

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