Nearly two dozen girls at a Christian summer camp are missing — and potentially dead — after their cabins were apparently washed away by “catastrophic” and fatal flooding in Texas that has left at least 13 people dead, officials announced Friday.
Around 20 children are unaccounted for at Camp Mystic alongside the Guadalupe River in Hunt, a suburb of San Antonio in Kerr County, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said at a news conference.
The all-girls sleep-away camp was evacuated overnight as the area was hit with up to 10 inches of rain, but some of the campers were left behind.
“I want all of you to know we will do everything humanly possible. Twenty-four-seven, looking at every tree, turning over every rock, whatever it takes — if your child is one of those truly missing and not just out of touch — to find your daughter,” Patrick vowed.
Camp staff sent out an email to families informing them of the tragedy, and that the camp lost power, water and Wi-Fi.
“If you have not been personally contacted, then your daughter is accounted for,” said the horrifying email, obtained by KSAT.
“We are working with search and rescue currently. The highway has washed away so we are struggling to get more help.”
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