Last Updated on January 10, 2018 10:13 am by INDIAN AWAAZ

San Francisco

At least 13 people are dead amid “waist-deep” mudslides in Southern California, where heavy rains triggered flooding, say officials.

Some 163 people have been taken to hospital. Twenty had “storm-related injuries” and four were critically hurt, the BBC News reported on Wednesday.

A group of up to 300 people are reportedly trapped in Romero Canyon, east of Santa Barbara.