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- Heavy rains hit a part of Texas last Friday, causing fatal flooding.
- The number of fatalities has exceeded 100, including minors.
- Concerns have been voiced regarding the county’s emergency response and readiness.
Five girls and a camp counselor continue to be missing, Abbott mentioned, alongside another child not linked to the camp.

Twenty-seven individuals from Camp Mystic, a traditional all-girls Christian retreat, were among those lost. Source: AAP / AP / Eli Hartman
Fifteen other flood-related fatalities had been confirmed across a swathe of Texas Hill Country known as “flash flood alley”, the governor said, bringing the overall tally of lives lost to 109.
He said another 12 people were missing elsewhere across the flood zone as a whole, a sprawling area northwest of San Antonio.
In less than an hour before dawn last Friday, over a foot of rain inundated the area, sending a torrent rushing down the Guadalupe that claimed numerous lives and left heaps of debris, uprooted trees, and overturned cars.