Four days after Texas floods, at least 161 people are still missing

Four days after flash floods hit parts of the US state of Texas, at least 161 people remain missing in Kerr County. Kerr County Governor Greg Abbott said that hopes of finding survivors were fading. BBC News. Among those missing in Kerr County, which was hit hard by last week’s devastating floods, are members of a summer camp for Christian girls on the banks of the Guadalupe River. At least 109 people have died in the disaster, including 94 in the Kerrville area, Abbott said at a news conference on Tuesday. More than 250 workers from various agencies have been deployed to the Kerrville area to assist in search and rescue efforts. Meanwhile, intensive search and rescue efforts are reportedly continuing in Texas. Abbott pledged that emergency workers will not stop until every missing person is accounted for. Abbott added that more missing people were expected to be added to the list in the coming days. Meanwhile, Texas National Guard Gen. Thomas Swelzer said the search effort included Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters with rescue equipment. He added that 13 Black Hawk helicopters were assisting in the search effort, including four from Arkansas. Authorities were also using Reaper drones, he said. Most of the deaths in the flooding were in Kerr County, where heavy rains before dawn on Friday (July 4), a public holiday, caused the Guadalupe River to swell and cause flash flooding. But Texas is not alone. A flash flood emergency was also declared in neighboring New Mexico on Tuesday, where at least three people died.