A minimum of 161 individuals are recognized to be lacking in Kerr County, Texas, following the catastrophic flooding this previous weekend, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) mentioned at a information convention Tuesday.
The governor additionally confirmed 109 fatalities linked to the floods, together with 94 in Kerr County and 15 in different elements of Texas.
“There are way more fatalities than there have been in Hurricane Harvey. That is how catastrophic that is,” Abbott mentioned on the information convention.
Camp Mystic, which has lengthy been the go-to summer season camp for the Christian daughters of the state’s political elite, said on Monday that it was “grieving” 27 campers and counselors after the flooding. Abbott mentioned on Tuesday that 5 campers and one counselor remained lacking.
Abbott mentioned the rise within the variety of lacking folks is a results of better outreach efforts “to get higher details about those that weren’t registered at a camp, those that weren’t registered at a resort, those that might have been down right here who nobody actually had any accounting of.”
“Via legislation enforcement businesses working collectively, they offered me this quantity: Simply within the Kerr County space alone, there are 161 people who find themselves recognized to be lacking,” Abbott mentioned on the information convention.
He pledged to proceed looking till everyone seems to be discovered and urged the general public to assist.
“Know this: We is not going to cease till each lacking particular person is accounted for,” Abbott mentioned. “Know this additionally, there are very more likely to be extra added to that checklist.
Abbott inspired the general public to proceed calling in with details about folks they know who’re lacking. He requested that callers embrace the most effective identification attainable for the lacking particular person, in addition to their final recognized location. He offered the next quantity and e mail to the general public: 830-250-1111; kerrvillemissing@dps.texas.gov.