Dad’s heartbreaking search for daughter lost in Texas flood

At the flood-ravaged site, Michael sifts through the debris in search of his daughter

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Virendra Saklani, Chief Visual Journalist
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With a drizzle falling on Camp Mystic, the flood-ravaged Christian summer camp on the Guadalupe River in Texas, a father navigated the debris in search of his eight-year-old daughter.

"My daughter was here," he said Saturday, examining a stone-walled cabin with shattered windows, eventually finding a towel with her name, a bracelet and a family photo.

She is among 27 girls who have yet to be found after powerful waves of water rushed through the riverside camp in the pre-dawn hours after torrential rainfall.

One of the walls of Camp Mystic's dining hall, a large wooden cabin, was completely ripped off by the force of the floodwaters, which left some 32 people dead in the Kerr County region of south-central Texas.

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