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Key Points
- Torrential rains struck a region of Texas last Friday, unleashing deadly flooding.
- The death toll has risen past 100, including children.
- There have been questions raised about the county’s emergency management operations and preparedness.
The camp director also perished. Five girls and a camp counsellor were still unaccounted for on Tuesday, Abbott said, along with another child not associated with the camp.
Twenty-seven campers and counsellors from a century-old, all-girls Christian summer retreat called Camp Mystic were among the dead. Source: AAP / AP / Eli Hartman
As of midday, 15 other flood-related fatalities had been confirmed across a swath of Texas Hill Country known as “flash flood alley”, the governor said, bringing the overall death toll from the disaster to 109.
“It’s dirty work. The water is still there.”
Questions over flood warnings
At an earlier news briefing on Tuesday, Kerr County sheriff Larry Leitha rebuffed questions about the county’s emergency management operations and preparedness and declined to say who in the county was ultimately in charge of monitoring weather alerts and issuing a flood warning or evacuation orders.
