At least 15 children are among the bodies recovered so far, according to county officials responding to the natural disaster.

Rescuers scoured a devastated landscape in an increasingly bleak mission as they searched for missing people, including 27 girls at a camp that was slammed with a wall of water in a historic flash flood.

As the floodwaters recede from Camp Mystic, a torrent of grief remains for the families of the children who died and those who went missing when flash floods tore through central Texas earlier this week.