More than 50 people have died and dozens of children are missing in Texas Hill Country after catastrophic flooding, leaving officials struggling to explain if they had done enough to warn people of the fast-rising waters.

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,

GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!" City Manager Dalton Rice is next asked whether officials will share the names of children who are missing. "Absolutely not," he responds. "We want to protect those families and their information.

Flash floods along Texas’ Guadalupe River have killed at least 32 people and also left around 27 people missing.

FEMA was activated after Trump signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Kerr County, where 59 people were killed by flash floods.