At least 26 people were killed in a spate of tornadoes that tore through the South and Midwest Saturday.
The updated grim death toll came after dozens of confirmed or suspect tornadoes ripped through cities and towns from Arkansas to Illinois — where a storm collapsed the roof of a crowded concert venue.
Sullivan Mayor Clint Lamb and Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb survey the damage caused by a tornado on Saturday.Children stand inside of a destroyed convenience store the day after a tornado hit Sullivan, Indiana.About 150 miles away in Tennessee’s McNairy County, nine people were killed by windstorms, according to Patrick Sheehan, director the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
To the west in Memphis, officials said that two children and an adult had died when a tree fell on their house, and officials in states as far south as Alabama and Mississippi each recorded a fatality from suspected tornadoes. The deadly inclement weather stretched all the way to the Chicago area, as the roof of theatre about an hour west of the Second City collapsed during a death metal concert Friday night.People pray at the sight of a destroyed school in Sullivan, Indiana.About 260 fans were inside the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Ill. when disaster struck at the Crypta concert. A 50-year-old man, identified by ABC News as Frederick Forest Livingston, Jr., died by the time first responders arrived on the scene.
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