The death toll in Central Texas climbed to 82, with victims including Camp Mystic campers, sisters Blair and Brooke Harber who died holding hands, and camp director Dick Eastland.

The risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on Monday, even as crews searched urgently for the missing.

Flash floods in Texas killed at least 82 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend and left others still missing, including girls attending a summer camp.

Rescuers were searching for more than two dozen girls missing from a summer camp in Texas after a flash flood killed at least 50 people, 15 of them children. The Guadalupe River that runs through the Hill Country in central south Texas rose by 26ft (8 metres) in 45 minutes in the early hours of Friday,

Flooding in Central Texas took at least 43 lives on Friday, July 4. Anthony Antoine visited the site of where fireworks to celebrate the holiday were supposed to be launched.

The devastating floods that struck central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend have become one of the deadliest flood events in the U.S. in the past century, Newsweek previously reported. By Sunday evening, authorities had confirmed at least 82 fatalities.

Summer camp in the flood-prone Hill Country has long been a rite of passage for young people from Texas and beyond.

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