At least 26 people, including children, have died in floods unleashed by torrential rains in eastern Kentucky, and more fatalities are predicted with authorities expecting to continue finding bodies for weeks, Governor Andy Beshear said on Sunday.
"There is widespread damage with many families displaced and more rain expected throughout the next day," the governor wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
"I know of several additional bodies, and we know it's going to grow," the governor told NBC News. "We are going to be finding bodies for weeks."Four children were confirmed dead as of Saturday and the governor told NBC News he feared that number would go up at least by two on Sunday. The floods were the second major national disaster to strike Kentucky in seven months, following a swarm of tornadoes that claimed nearly 80 lives in the western part of the state in December.
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