CHICAGO (REUTERS) - The death toll from a series of tornadoes that hammered the US South over the weekend rose to at least 18 on Monday (April 13) as rescue workers and homeowners dug through debris left in the wake of a weather system now threatening the US East Coast.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CHICAGO - The death toll from a series of tornadoes that hammered the US South over the weekend rose to at least 18 on Monday as rescue workers and homeowners dug through debris left in the wake of a weather system now threatening the US East Coast.
At least 11 people were killed in Mississippi, six in Georgia and one in Arkansas in the storms, local media and state officials reported. Local media across the region showed images and video clips of homeowners and rescue workers picking through piles of rubble as flattened homes, overturned vehicles and downed power lines covered the landscape at daybreak.
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