At least 24 people were dead and many missing after torrential rains unleashed flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas.

At least 20 girls are missing from an all-girls Christian summer camp in South Texas after catastrophic floods struck the area in the wake of severe overnight storms.

Authorities have said thirteen people have died in Kerr County in the US state of Texas amid a bout of severe weather and flooding. Others remain unaccounted for - including around 20 children who had been at a summer camp.