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52 dead in Texas for floods; Among the victims are 15 children

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A dead For floods in the center to the south Texas It has risen 52As reported on Saturday of several communities affected by disaster, the first of them Kerr Districteast of the city San AntonioField

Sheriff of the Kerr County, Larry Leita is Jr.He said that the number of restored corpses increased to 43, from them 28 adults and 15 children after devastation caused by a strong flood River Guadalup on Friday.

Texas authorities also reported the dead in other nearby communities: three in county BurnetOne in KendallAnother in Tom Green and four in TravisField

The sheriff Lita, the youngest from Kerra, explained that hundreds of emergency workers were continuing flooded areas and work to “search and salvation”, so he asked the population to send data about his missing relatives with their last location.

The manager of the city of Kerville in Kerr County, Dalton Rice, explained that these are the worst floods in the area since 1987, he foresaw that dead figures have increased and compared conferences on Sunday in the morning and afternoon.

Rice said that hundreds were saved from people in camps in this area, a total of about 800, and which are treated in local shelters.

Nevertheless, he said that 27 people, girls and monitors are still missing, which were placed in a Christian camp for mystical girls located on the shores of Guadalup near the city of Hunt.

Texas authorities did not want to indicate an exact figure, disappeared from the -from a large number of people outside the region they visited, and camping in this area on the occasion of the holidays on July 4.

The National Meteorological Service explained that on Friday, in just 12 hours, more than 30 centimeters of precipitation accumulated in just 12 hours, which lifted the flow of Guadalup, near the hunt, at the second largest registered level with a height of 9.9 meters.

Rice told people that he went to power, offering to help turn to his “local region” and try to collect “fragments in cubes and garbage bags”, but be careful because there are still “very dangerous conditions”.

Over the next weeks, he also foresaw that the city is supplied with well water to avoid polluted water from -dotted, for example, gasoline and other chemical agents.

With information EFE

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