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27 people died from floods in Texas, increasing to 27

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Quantity Dead people Confirmed in the center in the south Texas From the serious one floods This affects the region, increasing this Saturday before 27According to local authorities, adding that more than 20 girls who were in the summer camp were not yet found, and that the total number disappeared is unknown.

Larry Leita is Jr.Sheriff of Kerr County, Eastern District of the City San Antonio which is most affected by a strong stream River GuadalupHe explained – to the press conference – that the bodies of 27 dead, 18 of which were adults and nine children.

Six adults are unnowaned, as one of the children, explained Leita, youngest.

In total, more than 850 people were successfully evacuated, which were not injured to get injuries in the area where more than 160 salvations were advanced through the air.

For his part, the municipal manager of Kerville, Dalton RiceHe said that there are 27 people whose disappearance is confirmed and that they were all placed in a Christian camp for mystical girls located on the banks of Guadalup near the city of Hunt, in the Kerr district.

As for the total number of missing people, Rice said that the exact figure has not yet been established and that the authorities do not even want to perform calculations at the moment from a large number of people outside the region that they visited, and the camp in this area, on the occasion of the holidays on July 4.

Rice said that the water was already partially retreated upstream and that there are troops on the ground moving in the region on foot from the southeast from Hunt (where the mystical camp is located) is north, and in total they should cover the route along the Guadalup about 17 kilometers.

The manager assured that he was still saving many people who were in the camps, and that they remain isolated from the damage to the road.

Sheriff’s offices, Kerra police and firefighters and other emergency teams continue to work on search and rescue operations along Guadalup, added the sheriff of Leit, Jr.

On Saturday morning, some residents of Kerville walked in the Park of Louise Hayes in the park, in the center of the city, on the banks of the Guadalup River to observe the destructive forces left by the flood.

In the water, in the middle of the trees, the current began with the root and pieces of asphalt, which stretched in its way, the remains of two tractors, pickups and the red Ford sedan floated.

On the road that goes parallel to the river, traces left by the current: dirt, sand, branches, leaves.

“We are not going to stop until we find everyone,” said Leita, Jr., who now said that there are all the necessary resources for operations.

For his part, Texas CIP Congressman Roy said he spoke to the president Donald Trump and with the secretary of national security, Christie Nooy, And in total, about a thousand troops have already been deployed in the Texas center in the south to promote search and rescue operations, which are part of local, state and federal organizations.

Trump himself announced on his platform of social truth that Noem would go to the area touched today and that his administration “works with local representatives and the state to the field in Texas in order to react to tragic floods.”

The American National Meteorological Service explained that for only 12 hours on Friday, more than 30 centimeters of precipitation was accumulated, which raised the flow of Guadalup, near the hunt, to the second largest level, with 9.9 meters.

With information EFE

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