Search for survivors killed after 43, including 15 children

Hundreds of rescuers were used to search for survivors in Central Texas, after flash of flash 43 people killed, including 15 children.

“The work continues and will continue until everyone is found,” Larry Leitha promised, the Sheriff of Kerr County.

While the search goes in a second night, the provincial officials said that 27 children remained missing in a Christian youth camp along the river.

Some parents confirmed the death of their child on social media. So far, around 850 people have been saved.

Multiple flash flood warnings remain in place in Central Texas during the weekend.

During a press conference on Saturday afternoon, the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott said that he had signed an extensive disaster statement to stimulate the search efforts.

He said that civil servants would be ruthless to ensure that they find “every person who has been the victim of this event”, and added that “we will stop when the job is completed”.

It remains a search and rescue mission, said civil servants, no recovery effort.

They said that rescuers went on and off the Guadalupe River to try to find people who may have been wiped out by the floods.

US President Donald Trump said that his administration works closely with the local authorities to respond to the emergency situation.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi mentioned said that the federal government would use the coast guard to help the efforts.

Predictors have warned that Central Texas can see more floods this weekend.

The National Weather Service (NWS) said that the area could see 2 to 5 inches (5 cm to 12 cm) rain on Saturday.

Up to 10 inch rain was possible in some areas that were hit hard by the flood of Friday.

Much of the salvation has focused on a Christian summer camp of a large all-girls called Camp Mystic, located along the banks of the River Guadalupe.

Lieutenant -Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, told the Radio 16 pm program of the BBC that many of 27 missing girls were “younger than 12 years”.

Photos from the camp, show it in disorder, with blankets, mattresses, teddy bears and other possessions cooked in mud.

Many slept more than 26 ft (8 m) when the river slept in less than an hour in the early hours of Friday.

In an e -mail to parents of the approximately 750 campers, Camp Mystic said that if they have not contacted directly, their child is considered missing.

Some families have already publicly said that their children were the ones who were found dead.

A special mass will be held on Sunday in the Catholic Church of Notre Dame for those who died or missed, and their families.

Rachel rode five hours from Dallas to pick up her daughter. She told the BBC that members of her church and children’s school district were and missing among the girls of the girls.

“The families of those campers live the worst nightmare of every parents,” she said. “Of course I could have been.”

Others started to return to the flooded areas.

Jonathan and Brittany Rojas visited the house of their family members – where only the foundation remained.

They told the BBC that the mother and a baby of the family remained missing. A teenage son, Leo, then survived He was snared in barbed wire.

Another resident, Anthony, found his apartment full of mud and rubble. His possessions were not editing, except a box with photos of youth and his baby blanket.

“I lost everything I own,” he told the BBC. “Now I try to sort things out.”

Additional reporting by Iona Hampson in Texas and Ana Faguy in Washington.