AUSTIN, Texas — Families of young campers killed in a July 4 flash flood have filed new lawsuits accusing a Texas Hill Country girls camp of ignoring days of warnings, housing children in floodplains and telling staff to keep children inside cabins as water rapidly rose before dawn.

The suits, filed in Travis County against Camp Mystic, LLC and related entities and people tied to the Eastland family, seek wrongful-death and survival damages and claim negligence and gross negligence.

In one petition, parents representing six girls , ages 8 and 9, identified as Virginia “Wynne” Naylor, Hadley Hanna, Virginia Hollis, Jane “Janie” Hunt, Lucy Dillon and Kellyanne Lytal, describe a “predicted flash flood” and claim the camp’s emergency plan told children to shelter in place, a directive they

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