2 Dead in Texas Flash Flood From Hurricane Pamela Remnants

2 Dead in Texas Flash Flood From Hurricane Pamela Remnants
A man speaks on his mobile phone as hurricane Pamela pounds the Pacific coast resort with strong winds as it makes landfall in Mazatlan, Mexico, on Oct. 13, 2021. Daniel Becerril/Reuters
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ST. HEDWIG, Texas—A flash flood from the remnants of Hurricane Pamela swept a woman and a young girl to their deaths in a Texas creek as they were heading to a school and officials worked Friday to recover the woman’s body, authorities said.

The 52-year-old woman and a 5-year-old girl died when the separate vehicles they were in were swept from a bridge Thursday morning into the flood-swollen Martinez Creek in St. Hedwig on the outskirts of San Antonio, according to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.