Death toll rises to 120
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At least three people, including two children, have died due to flash flooding in Ruidoso, New Mexico on Tuesday, July 8.
At least 119 people have died and 161 more are missing after catastrophic flash floods swept through central Texas, officials announced on Wednesday. The devastating floods have claimed more lives than Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane that devastated Texas in 2017, killing 107 people in total.
The death toll from historic flash floods in Ruidoso, New Mexico, has not changed, officials said at a news conference today. Four people remain missing, according to officials.
The death toll in the central Texas flooding is up to 119 people, 95 of them in Kerr County, including 36 children.
Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done more to warn people ahead of devastating flash flooding that killed at least 119 people on July 4.