Authorities in Texas say more than 50 people have died in devasting flooding in Texas. They include a 68-year-old camp director, an Alabama elementary student away for the summer and a woman who had been reported missing in San Angelo.

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,

Hundreds of parents waited hours Saturday for girls to arrive in Kerrville after their Camp Waldemar stay was cut short by the deadly Guadalupe River flood.

Facebook user Mike Deegan captured video of floodwaters bursting from the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerrville.