Nearly a week after deadly floods struck Central Texas, search and rescue teams are continuing to probe debris for those still missing.

After flash floods devastated central Texas over Fourth of July weekend, the death toll continues to rise and more than 170 people remain missing.

KERRVILLE, Texas, July 8 (Reuters) - The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams pressed on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris looking for scores of people still missing.