Grueling search for flood victims still missing in Texas
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Kerr County teams have located most of the 160 people previously unaccounted for in the wake of the July 4th Texas flooding, with just three still missing.
Texas officials have revised the number of people missing in the catastrophic floods in Kerr County, Texas, from 97 people down to three on Saturday.
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Amazon S3 on MSNPeople Missing In Kerr County Drops From 160+ to ThreeThe city of Kerrville announced on Saturday that the 160+ people reported missing across Kerr County down to just 3 people. The city promised that search teams are still working tirelessly around the clock to find those remaining 3 people.
Two weeks after the floods that has killed over 100 people in the Texas Hill Country, officials now say the number of missing people has significantly dropped.
The new figure was a significant decline from 97 just days ago. The death toll in the county remained the same, and officials said many of the missing were reported safe.
After days of reports of more than 100 missing victims, officials now say the number of missing is significantly lower than originally reported.
Kerr County reports 3 missing and 107 deaths, including 37 children, post-flooding. Over 1,000 workers helped lower the missing count, and community support aids the ongoing search and relief efforts.
Search and rescue teams continue to look for missing persons weeks after July Fourth floods in Texas.
Officials in a Texas hill country community pummeled by deadly flooding on July 4 say just three people remain missing, down from nearly 100.
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FOX 7 Austin on MSNTexas flooding: Kerr County missing persons drop to 3 as many verified safeThe Kerr County Flood Disaster Joint Information Center has confirmed that three individuals remain missing as of Saturday. State and local agencies have verified many people initially reported as missing to be safe, the Kerrville release says, and those people have been removed from the list.
"There is a plan in place right now to accomplish draining the lake. We can't go any further than that, then to tell you that is being looked at right now," said Commissioner Tom Jones.