At least fourteen people, some of them children, killed after a tornado sweeps through Lee County in the US state of Alabama, with the death toll feared to rise
FILE PHOTO:Workers clear downed trees on Sunday January 20, 2019, after a tornado hit Wetumpka, Alabama, on Saturday afternoon.
At least fourteen people, some of them children, have died after a tornado swept through Lee County Alabama on Sunday, Sheriff Jay Jones said. Emergency workers were expected to toil into the night, pulling bodies and the injured out of the rubble of hundreds of homes. "The challenge is the sheer volume of the debris where all the homes were located," Jones said in an interview with CNN. "It's the most I've seen that I can recall."“We’ve still got people being pulled out of rubble,” he told the Birmingham News newspaper early on Sunday evening. “We’re going to be here all night.”
Severe weather unleashed one of numerous possible tornadoes that threatened the Southern United States on Sunday afternoon. Tornado warnings and watches were in effect for parts of Georgia and Alabama through Sunday evening.
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