In the tragic incident, about two dozen girls in the summer camp disappeared after a massive flood was caused in Kerrville, Texas, Texas on Friday.
Destructive fast -moving water along the Guadalupe in Kerrville on Friday on Friday in Kerrville entered 26 feet (8 meters) and postponed houses and vehicles.
At least 24 people are reportedly killed because of a natural disaster.
Rescue teams continued to find darkness at the beginning of Saturday for missing girls attending the Mystic camp, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River.
Helicopters and drones were used to find victims and rescue stuck people.
Parents and families frantically published photographs of their missing children and requests for information.
Thirteen -year -old Elinor Lester, one of the hundreds of campers in Camp Mystic, said: “The camp was completely destroyed,” he said Associated Press (AP).
“The helicopter landed and started taking people away. It was really scary,” she said.
Lester told that the raging storm woke up her cabin just after midnight on Friday, and when the rescuers arrived, they tied the rope for the girls to hold on as they walked across the bridge with flood waters that whipped around their feet.
The area susceptible to the flood known as Hill Country is dotted with centuries -old summer camps that attract thousands of children from all over Lone Star every year.
Texas people surprised surprise
Fast floods in the middle of the night 4. July surprised many inhabitants, campers and officials.
According to Apreport, he recorded a breakup near the Mystic Tábor 22 feet (6.7 meters) in about two hours, said meteorologist Bob Fogarty in Austin/San Antonio National Weather Service.
“Water is moving so fast, you won’t recognize how bad it is until it’s up to you,” Fogarty added.
The danger did not end, because on Saturday more heavy rains were foreseen, with warning about lightning floods.
At a press conference late on Friday, Sheriff Kerr County Larry Leith said that 24 people were confirmed by the dead.
The authorities said about 240 people.
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