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Six Dead, Including Toddler and Her Grandmother, as 25 Ferocious Tornadoes Rip Houses From Foundations in Southern States


“Six people have been killed, including a three-year-old girl, and dozens injured after 25 tornadoes tore across the Southeast.

In North Carolina, the toddler was found buried under a pile of shattered furniture along with her 50-year-old grandmother. Their small house in a rural area of Lexington had been ripped clean from its foundations.

The storms left at trail of debris that stretched for at least seven miles, with a dozen people taken to hospital.

Firefighters and volunteers in Lexington searched for the child, whose name wasn’t immediately released, for more than two hours.

A neighbour Maegan Chriscoe said: ‘She was just beautiful, big blue eyes and so sweet.’

One resident Henry Taylor said he was home watching television with his wife when he saw a tornado warning flash on the screen. A minute later, he saw a funnel cloud out his window.

Mr Taylor, 50, said: ‘It looked like the ‘Wizard of Oz. It was surreal, and for a moment, a split second, you say to yourself ‘This ain’t real,’ then reality sets in, and you know it is.’

With the latest deaths, the number of tornado fatalities for 2011 is 553, making it the deadliest year for tornadoes in the U.S. since 1925.” Read more.

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