A 1-year-old boy ripped from his mother’s arms by fierce floodwaters in North Carolina became one of Florence’s latest victims Monday — as the devastating storm’s death toll may now be as high as 20, officials and reports said.

Hurricane Florence’s death toll rose to at least 20 on Monday — including two baby boys who were killed in front of their mothers, according to officials and reports.

One of the tragedies struck when Dazia Lee was driving along North Carolina Highway 218 with her 14-month-old son, Kaiden Lee-Welch, to visit family when they arrived at a barricade around 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

Lee angled her car around the barrier, later telling cops that she found it tilted slightly to the side and believed the road beyond was safe for travel.

She drove headlong into a dangerously flooded stretch of the highway, and a powerful rush of water pushed her car clear off the road and against a grove of trees, according to the Union County Sheriff’s Office.

Lee freed her son from his car seat and escaped the vehicle clutching him close to her, but she lost her grip in the choppy waters.

“I was holding his hand, trying to hold him, trying to pull him up,” Lee told FOX 46.

“I couldn’t hold on anymore, and he let go.”

The swirling waters ripped Kaiden away from his mother, and he vanished into the murky chop.

A team of rescuers launched a desperate search Sunday night, but Kaiden was nowhere to be found.

Daylight brought the grim discovery of his lifeless body near a flooded soybean field, The Charlotte Observer reported.

“He’s the sweetest boy you could ever have,” Lee choked through tears to FOX 46.

“I did everything I could from the moment I was pregnant to the moment I lost him,” she said.

The death came within hours of a man being found dead beside a car amid receding floodwaters in Marshville, the paper reported.

It also comes on the heels of another young victim’s death: 3-month-old Kade Gill was killed Sunday when a falling tree crushed his family’s mobile home in Dallas, NC.

As Florence winds its way north, the rainfall left behind continues to pose a threat as rivers and creeks overflow to dangerous heights and bring on flash flooding.