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Several tornadoes have swept through the South and the Midwest region of the United States since Friday, causing enormous property damage and a heavy human toll.
At least 21 dead and dozens injured: a violent storm accompanied by strong winds and intense rains has swept the south and the Midwest region of the United States in the past few hours, making between Saturday April 1 and this Sunday 2 April enormous damage for a heavy human toll, announced the American authorities.
At least five people have been killed in Arkansas, authorities said, as rescuers continued to search the rubble for potential victims after tornadoes hit the state on Friday. Authorities also reported four deaths in Illinois and three more in Indiana, while the Tennessee Department of Health reported seven deaths Saturday in McNairy County, which borders Mississippi. Fox News reported one death in Alabama and another in Mississippi.
Several particularly impressive videos were shot on this occasion, like this one, near Little Rock, where the videographer was almost blown away by the force of the winds, but is fortunately safe and sound.
These violent tornadoes, which have occurred since Friday, tore through the roofs and walls of numerous buildings, overturned vehicles, uprooted trees and caused the collapse of power lines in Little Rock and large areas to the east and south. northeast of the Arkansas capital, authorities said.
Little Rock resident Coody Combes said he got the scare of his life when his pickup truck suddenly found itself in the tornado’s path.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YlDDdIKl8E
“I thought I was going to die,” he confided afterwards.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that five deaths have been confirmed in her state. Four deaths have been reported in Wynne, about 100 miles east of Little Rock, said Eli Long, a Cross County medical examiner. One person was killed and more than 50 others were hospitalized in North Little Rock, Pulaski County spokeswoman Madeline Roberts told The Washington Post.
US President Joe Biden has spoken to local elected officials, the White House said in a statement to which they offered help from the federal government.
In Sullivan County, Indiana, three people were killed, Sergeant Matt Ames said, and a state of emergency was declared in the disaster areas, Sheriff Jason Bobbitt wrote on Facebook.
In Belvidere, a town in northern Illinois, one person was killed and 40 others injured due to extreme weather conditions that caused the roof of a performance hall where about 260 people were attending a concert of heavy metal.
Fox News, citing Fox Weather, reported that a tornado killed one person in Madison County, Alabama, and another person died in the storm that swept through Pontotoc County, Mississippi.
