A tornado ripped through Missouri on Wednesday, killing at least five people, according to authorities in this central US state.
“Five confirmed deaths,” Sergeant Clark Parrott, a spokesman for the Missouri Transit Police, said in a message to AFP.
The images of the local channel Fox 2 showed trees uprooted and houses blown up in the town of Glenallen, in the southeast of the state.
Several villages in Bollinger County “have been impacted by what appears to be a sizeable tornado early this morning,” County Sheriff Casey Graham said, further confirming the five deaths.
“Throughout the morning and even now, our search and assistance operations are ongoing,” he continued on the Bollinger County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.
The country affected for several days
Tornadoes, meteorological phenomena as impressive as they are difficult to predict, are common in the United States, especially in the center and south of the country.
Tornadoes and violent thunderstorms that swept across several US states last weekend killed at least 32 people.
Tennessee was particularly hard hit with 15 deaths linked to severe weather, the southern state’s emergency management agency reported Sunday.
A week earlier, a tornado swept through Mississippi, killing 25 people and causing extensive property damage. President Biden was there.
Source: BFM TV
