A frantic search continued on Saturday for about two dozen people still missing from a century-old Christian girls' camp in central Texas after flash floods in the area killed at least 24 at the start of the U.

Authorities said at least 24 people have died in flooding around Kerr County, Texas, and officials are still performing water rescues.

Child and adult campers and a camp director were among at least 51 people who have died in the flooding in Central Texas.

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,