At least six people died this Saturday after the passage of several tornadoes that caused damage to homes and streets in different cities in the state of Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.
Local authorities indicated that around two dozen injured people were taken to hospitals.
Three people died in Montgomery County, north of Nashville, near the Kentucky state line, county officials said in a statement.
Nashville’s emergency operations center said three people died in an area north of downtown.
The US weather services issued tornado warnings Saturday night in Tennessee, where more than 80,000 residents were without power, according to the PowerOutage.us website.
The storm came nearly two years after weather services recorded 41 tornadoes in a number of states, including 16 in Tennessee and eight in Kentucky. In Kentucky alone, 81 people died.
Source: TSF
