{"id":363097,"date":"2025-07-07T10:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=363097"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:40:18","slug":"death-toll-from-texas-floods-rises-to-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=363097","title":{"rendered":"Death Toll from Texas floods rises to 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, SANA-The death toll from the floods that swept through Kerr County, Texas, has climbed to at least 78, amid growing concerns about further flooding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Reuters, County Sheriff Larry Leitha stated: \u201cSixty-eight people have been confirmed dead so far due to the floods in the Hill Country area, including 28 children.\u201d He added that search efforts are ongoing for girls who went missing from a local summer camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You will see the death toll rise today and tomorrow,&#8221; said Freeman Martin, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, also speaking on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump declared a \u201cmajor disaster\u201d in the state of Texas\u2014home to the affected county\u2014and issued an official order to facilitate access to federal aid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s worth noting that the Guadalupe River in Kerr County overflowed after intense and sudden rainfall on July 4th, resulting in widespread destruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reem Abdulhameed \/ Manar Salameh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, SANA-The death toll from the floods that swept through Kerr County, Texas, has climbed to at least 78, amid growing concerns about further flooding. According to Reuters, County Sheriff Larry Leitha stated: \u201cSixty-eight people have been confirmed dead so far due to the floods in the Hill Country area, including 28 children.\u201d He added &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":363101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363099,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363097\/revisions\/363099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}