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KERR COUNTY, Texas — A devastating scene unfolded in the Hill Country on the Fourth of July as dozens of people, including children, died after major flooding in multiple Texas counties. That number is expected to increase as search-and-rescue operations continue this weekend and beyond.

At least 161 are still unaccounted for after the July Fourth floods that saw the waters of the Guadalupe rise to historic levels in Central Texas, officials with Kerr County said Friday. Authorities have confirmed 103 deaths, 36 of whom are children.

The death toll from the devastating floods that swept through Kerr County early Friday stands at 107 , officials said Tuesday.

A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.

A chain-link fence that separates Water Street in the center of Kerrville from the Guadalupe River just a few hundred feet away has become a makeshift memorial, with the flower-covered stretch serving as a focal point for a grieving community.

Volunteers still combing through the wreckage of Texas’ devastating July 4 flooding are being evacuated from the disaster zone over the possibility of another deluge. “MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND,” Kerr County officials wrote in an urgent advisory Monday,