Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., told Newsmax on Monday that his granddaughters are safe after the camp they were attending in central Texas flooded last week. The natural disaster claimed the lives of 27 campers and counselors, including one of his granddaughters’ cousins.

Authorities are still searching for almost a dozen campers from Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp in Hunt, after the rain caused the Guadalupe River, which runs alongside the camp, to rise more than 20 feet in just under two hours on the Fourth of July.

Carter, in an interview with “Wake Up America,” said two of his granddaughters were at Camp Mystic when it flooded. He said that while they survived, thanks to rescue efforts, their cousin Janie Hunt tragically died along with two counselors and several other campers after their cabin was “washed away.”

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