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- Torrential rains struck a region of Texas last Friday, unleashing deadly flooding.
- The death toll has risen past 100, including children.
- There have been questions raised about the county’s emergency management operations and preparedness.
Five girls and a camp counsellor were still unaccounted, Abbott said, along with another child not associated with the camp.

Twenty-seven campers and counsellors from a century-old, all-girls Christian summer retreat called Camp Mystic were among the dead. Source: AAP / AP / Eli Hartman
Fifteen other flood-related fatalities had been confirmed across a swathe of Texas Hill Country known as “flash flood alley”, the governor said, bringing the overall tally of lives lost to 109.
He said another 12 people were missing elsewhere across the flood zone as a whole, a sprawling area northwest of San Antonio.
More than a foot of rain fell in the region in less than an hour before dawn last Friday, sending a wall of water cascading down the Guadalupe that killed dozens of people and left mangled piles of debris, uprooted trees and overturned vehicles.