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Texas flood kills at least 50 with more rain forecast

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, according to officials, bursting its banks and destroying roads and property, including Camp Mystic where 27 missing girls were staying.

The disaster struck as people across the US gathered to celebrate Independence Day. More than 850 people have been rescued, some of whom were clinging to trees, in what is being called a once in a century flood.

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