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Powerful tornadoes kill more than 80 in five US states
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13 December 2021
WASHINGTON, 13 December 2021, (TON): Dozens of devastating tornadoes roared through five US states overnight, leaving more than 80 people dead Saturday in what President Joe Biden said was “one of the largest” storm outbreaks in history.
A shaken Biden said in televised comments “it’s a tragedy and we still don’t know how many lives are lost and the full extent of the damage.”
As darkness fell scores of search and rescue officials were helping stunned citizens across the US heartland sift through the rubble of their homes and businesses searching for any more survivors.
More than 70 people are believed to have been killed in Kentucky alone, many of them workers at a candle factory, while at least six died in an Amazon warehouse in Illinois where they were on the night shift processing orders ahead of Christmas.
Kentucky governor Andy Beshear said “this event is the worst, most devastating, most deadly tornado event in Kentucky’s history.”
He added “he fears we will have lost more than 100 people.”
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