Tornadoes kill 26 in US

April 29, 2014 12:44

Tornadoes flattened homes and businesses, flipped trucks over on highways and bent telephone poles into 45-degree angles as they barreled through Alabama and Mississippi, part of a storm system that killed at least nine people in the South and brought the overall death toll from two days of severe weather in the country to at least 26.

Tens of thousands of customers were without power in Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi, and thousands more hunkered down in basements and shelters as The National Weather Service issued watches and warnings for more tornadoes throughout the night in Alabama.

Radar images showed a twister heading toward the city of Birmingham.

Weather satellites from space showed tumultuous clouds arcing across much of the South over the course of the day yesterday.

The system is the latest onslaught of severe weather a day after a half-mile-wide tornado carved a 130-kilometre path of destruction through the suburbs of Little Rock, Arkansas, killing at least 15.

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