Flash flood kills 2-year-old in Oklahoma

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published 19 June 2015

A two-year-old boy was swept out of his father's arms Wednesday in Ardmore, Oklahoma, after heavy rains triggered severe flooding, officials said.

The flooding was caused by Tropical Depression Bill, which is traveling northeast through Arkansas and Missouri into West Virginia. On Thursday, the boy's body was found by emergency workers, Reuters reports. A woman in central Texas was killed after losing control of her car while driving through the storm, and another person was killed in Missouri during flooding. Tropical Depression Bill is expected to weaken over the next few days, the National Weather Service says. It will likely dump between 2 to 4 inches of rain, but some areas could receive up to 12 inches.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.