WASHINGTON - A tornado tore through the southern US state of Alabama on Sunday, killing 14 people, uprooting trees and causing "catastrophic" damage to buildings and roads, officials said.
WASHINGTON - A tornado tore through the southern US state of Alabama on Sunday, killing 14 people, uprooting trees and causing "catastrophic" damage to buildings and roads, officials said.
Lee County coroner Bill Harris confirmed the death toll: "We've got 14 people dead at this time and I expect that number to go higher," he told cable news station MSNBC. The swath of destruction left by the storm was 0.4 kilometers wide and stretched for the "several miles that it traveled on the ground," according to Jones.Still and video images showed trees that had been snapped in two, debris-strewn roads and wrecked houses in the wake of the storm.
Television images showed the heavy rain had relented by dusk but many roads in the worst-hit areas were left littered with debris and unpassable. "My sister and niece have been under tornado watch and warnings all day in Montgomery... Prayers up for Alabama," Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ava Duvernay tweeted.
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