At least six people were killed on Saturday after the passage of several tornadoes that caused damage to homes and streets in several cities in the state of Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.
Local authorities said about 20 injured people had been taken to hospitals.
Please pray for my city that was just absolutely destroyed by a tornado.
My family is safe, but so many homes, businesses, churches and schools have been shut down. At least 6 dead and more than 20 injured. Devastating, but God is good even on the worst days pic.twitter.com/AA5WO7ee55
-Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) December 10, 2023
Three people died in Montgomery County, north of Nashville, near the Kentucky state line, county authorities said in a statement.
Nashville’s emergency operations center said three people died in an area north of downtown.
Here is raw footage of the tornado near us in Clarksville, Tennessee. We’re going out into the community tomorrow to help those in need pic.twitter.com/k72OJGcd9L
– ZeroJMatic (@ZeroJMatic) December 10, 2023
The US weather services issued tornado warnings on Saturday evening in Tennessee, where more than 80,000 residents were without power, according to the website PowerOutage.us.
The storm occurred nearly two years after weather services recorded 41 tornadoes in a range of states, including 16 in Tennessee and eight in Kentucky. 81 people died in Kentucky alone.
Source: DN
