Texas floods leave at least 51 dead, 27 girls missing as rescue efforts continue

Public safety officials searched along the banks of the Guadalupe River after the flash flooding. Picture: Julio Cortez/AP

Rescuers were continuing to scour a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors.

The flooding in Kerr County killed at least 43 people, including 15 children, and at least eight people died in nearby counties.