Tornadoes kill more than 20 in the United States.
Rescue teams in the United States are searching through what remains of homes and industries destroyed by a pair of tornadoes that killed at least 23 people, in what was considered the deadliest storm to hit the country in nearly six years.
Deborah Bloom (Reuters) - Rescue teams in the United States are searching through what remains of homes and industries destroyed by a pair of tornadoes that killed at least 23 people, in what was considered the deadliest storm to hit the country in nearly six years.
Tornadoes devastated Lee County, Alabama, on Sunday, with winds of at least 240 kilometers per hour, placing them in the middle of the Fujita scale, which meteorologists use to measure the strength of the phenomenon.
More than 50 people were injured and the death toll is expected to rise, officials said. This could make the storm more deadly than the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma, in 2013, which killed 24 people.
Images from television stations and social media showed uprooted trees and houses with destroyed walls.
Temperatures in the state dropped to 2 degrees Celsius on Monday, leaving those affected by the storm facing difficulties without power and heating.