By JIM VERTUNO, JULIO CORTEZ and JOHN SEEWER KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The grueling, desperate search for 27 missing girls stretched into a third day on Sunday after raging floodwaters surged

The search for those swept into deadly floods in central Texas continued Sunday as the death toll climbed. At least 43 people, including 15 children, died in Kerr County, Texas, after the area saw nearly a foot of rain Friday.

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.