More than 200 people at summer camp airlifted to safety as Missouri faces flooding

The Guardian reports that more than two hundred children and staff were airlifted to safety from a summer camp in Missouri on Friday, after heavy rainfall and widespread flooding battered the region. The campers were trapped at Camp Taum Sauk near Lesterville when nearby roads washed away, and the Army National Guard used Black Hawk helicopters to fly them to a nearby elementary school to reunite with their families. Separately, about twenty people were rescued after a campground building they had moved to for safety collapsed. State highway patrol says more rain remains in the forecast.

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