The chances of survivors in the Texas floods are decreasing, with 100 dead and more than 160 people still missing.

More than 160 people are still missing after devastating flooding in Texas, USA, which killed more than 100 people, the state's governor announced.

AFP reports that Governor Greg Abbott told reporters that "in Kerr County alone, 161 people are considered missing," adding that this was based on information reported by friends, relatives and neighbors of the missing.

Search teams are still wading through muddy riverbanks and flying over affected areas, although the chances of finding survivors among the missing, including children, are diminishing.

Three days ago, the Guadalupe River's torrential rains destroyed a Christian summer camp for girls. Twenty-seven of them died, and ten girls and one counselor at the camp were never found.

The largest number of deaths occurred in and around the town of Kerrville, on the riverbank and on the grounds of the Mystic Camp.

The New York Times reported that at least 104 people died across the flood zone.

There is a debate in the American public about how state and local officials responded to weather warnings that predicted the possibility of flash floods and the lack of an early warning system that could have mitigated the disaster, Reuters reports.

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick promised that the state would provide more money for flash flood warning systems.