Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for on Friday after floods tore through the state’s south-central region overnight.
At least 13 people were dead and dozens missing after months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
The flood-prone region is dotted with century-old summer camps that draw thousands of kids annually from across the Lone Star State.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said about 23 girls attending Camp Mystic, a Christian camp along the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, were unaccounted for on Friday afternoon.
Search teams were working to conduct helicopter and boat rescues in the fast-moving floodwaters.
