Severe flooding leaves 24 dead in Texas

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MASSIVE flooding has left at least 24 people dead in Kerr County, Texas, authorities confirmed on Friday (local time).

President Donald Trump has pledged federal support in the aftermath of the flooding that he described as “terrible” and “shocking.”

“It’s terrible. The floods? It’s shocking. They don’t know the answer yet as to how many people, but it looks like some young people have died,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he traveled to his New Jersey golf club.

In a report by CNN, between 23 and 25 people at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas, are still unaccounted for.

The report stated that about 107 game wardens and an aviation group tried to access the camp.

Officials said that shortly after midday, rescuers were able to enter the camp and started rescuing children.

Authorities were in contact with about 18 camps along the Guadalupe River with Camp Mystic as the only camp with people still unaccounted for as of Friday evening.

“The far majority of those camps have their campers and have already contacted their families and working to reunite those families together,” Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, said at a news conference.

Kidd said added that the focused is “on the ones that cannot help themselves right now.”

Authorities have already rescued or evacuated 237 people, 167 of those were by helicopter.

“So we are having a very good helicopter response when the weather allows,” said Maj. Gen. Thomas M. Suelzer in the same CNN report.