An entire cabin of young girls are either dead or missing after they were swept away in flash floods in Texas.

At least nine of the children staying in the Bubble Inn cabin at the Christian summer camp lost their lives in the flooding, according to reports.

The girls, aged between eight and 10, were staying in a cabin located a short distance from Texas’s Guadalupe River, which burst its banks in the early hours of Friday.

Towns across central Texas were devastated by the floods. The county where the summer camp is located previously rejected plans to install a flooding alarm system because it was seen as “too extravagant”.

More than 100 people were killed across the state after the Guadalupe River surged by 26 feet in the space of 45 minutes on July 4, authorities said on Monday.

Girls and counsellors staying in Camp Mystic’s Bubble Inn cabin were located less than 500 feet from the river and were quickly swept away.