Texas Flood Fatalities Rise to 43, Including 15 Children
People watch the Guadalupe River flow over a bridge in Kerrville, Texas, USA 05 July 2025. Twenty seven people are confirmed dead and dozens missing after floodwaters swept through a summer camp and nearby homes early 04 July. Search and Rescue teams continue working around the clock following flash flooding on the Guadalupe River in Kerr County. Photo: EFE/EPA/DUSTIN SAFRANEK
July 5, 2025 Hour: 9:37 pm
The death toll from the floods in south-central Texas has risen to 43, authorities in Kerr County, the area at the center of the catastrophe located east of the city of San Antonio, reported this Saturday.
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Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha Jr. said at a press conference that the number of bodies recovered has risen to 43 – 28 adults and 15 children – after the devastation caused by the strong rise of the Guadalupe River.
Leitha Jr. explained that hundreds of emergency workers are still in the flooded areas and the work is still “search and rescue”, so he asked the public to send data on their missing relatives with their last location.
The manager of the city of Kerrville, Dalton Rice, explained that these are the worst floods in the area since 1987, predicted that the death toll will increase, and called conferences for tomorrow morning and afternoon.
Rice reported that “hundreds” of people who were in camps in the area, about 800 in total, have been rescued and are being cared for in local shelters.
However, he stated that the 27 people, girls and monitors, who were staying at the Christian camp for girls Mystic, located on the banks of the Guadalupe near the town of Hunt, are still missing.
Local authorities did not want to specify an exact number of missing persons due to the large number of people from outside the region who were visiting and camping in the area for the July 4th festivities.
The National Weather Service explained that in a period of just 12 hours on Friday, more than 30 centimeters of rainfall accumulated, which raised the flow of the Guadalupe, near Hunt, to its second highest level recorded, with 9.9 meters in height.
Rice told people who have come to the authorities offering to help to go to their “local area” and try to collect “debris in buckets and garbage bags”, but to be careful because there are still “very dangerous conditions”.
He also predicted that the city will obtain water from wells during the next few weeks to avoid water contaminated by debris dragged in the flood, such as gasoline and other chemical agents.
Source: EFE
