Tornadoes and flooding kill at least seven as dangerous weather hammered the southern United States.
At least seven people have been killed by tornadoes or floods as a severe storm slammed the southern United States over the weekend.
Tornadoes hit several small
towns in eastern Texas, killing four people. Flooding swept away a car,
drowning a woman in Missouri; a tree fell on a home killing a woman in
Arkansas; and a death was reported in Sunday morning storms that raked
Mississippi.
Dozens more were injured,
according to US officials.
In Texas, search teams were
going door to door on Sunday after the tornadoes the day before flattened
homes, uprooted trees and flipped several pickup trucks in Canton.
"It is heartbreaking
and upsetting to say the least," Canton Mayor Lou Ann Everett told
reporters at a news conference.
The first reports of
tornadoes came Saturday afternoon, but emergency crews were hampered by
continuing severe weather, said Judge Don Kirkpatrick, chief executive for Van
Zandt County.
"We'd be out there
working and get a report of another tornado on the ground," he said.
The storms rolled through
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Sunday with strong winds causing isolated
pockets of damage. In Durant, in central Mississippi, one person died in the
storm. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency didn't give details.
It also dumped a rare late
season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday.
Farther north, the storms
were causing massive flooding.
Near Clever in southwestern
Missouri, a man tried to save his 72-year-old wife from floodwaters that swept
away their vehicle Saturday, but her body was found when the water receded, the
Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
Source: AP news agency
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