Texas river flood kills 13 with 23 swept away from girls' summer camp as faces of missing emerge: Live

Daily Mail UK ^ | Independence Day 2025 | Natasha Anderson

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At least 13 people have been killed and hundreds more are feared missing after historic floods inundated a Texas county.

Twenty three people are missing from Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, after the Guadalupe River flooded and surged by up to 30 feet above its usual water leve Friday.

The names of those killed have not been shared, but the final death toll is expected to rise substantially as floodwaters recede.

And the identities of the missing have begun to emerge as stricken families share photos of their loved ones in the hopes of learning information about their whereabouts.

Officials have stressed they hope to rescue many of the missing and say they're still hopeful of finding most of those missing safe and well.

But the sheer scale of destruction - with buildings ripped from their foundations and cars swept away like toys - suggests that may be an overly optimistic prediction.

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There have been videos of the amazingly rapid rise of the river to swell to an enormous breadth in minutes.

This was a “Texas tsunami.”

Like the March 2011 tsunami in east Japan, it was a very very fast rise of a huge volume of water.

Japan has a warning system in place and paths for refuge to high ground, but not everyone made it.