BREAKING NEWS Four dead and two missing as Texas hit with biblical floods
At least four people have died after their cars were swept away by Biblical floodwaters which tore through Texas on Thursday morning.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said two men and two women have been confirmed dead, while several people are still missing.
The deaths all occurred in the northeast part of the city, where authorities found 13 vehicles floating or submerged in the water.
'It's hard to determine at this point exactly how they got swept away,' San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Woody Woodward said.
'But it is an area where there was high water that was moving rapidly and there were several people that were caught in that water that had climbed up into trees and we did do a couple of rescues out of trees and some rescues out of vehicles.'
The department has rescued 65 people from the raging torrent since midnight in the San Antonio area, Woodward added.
By midmorning, rain had stopped and the flooding was receding.
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