Death toll rises to 29 from tornadoes and storms in the US

*This note was updated at 19:30 pm

“I could feel the whole house shaking,” said Janice Pieterick, whose home saw glass doors and windows blow out when the tornado hit Lewis County. “We all snuggled,” she confessed.

These deaths add to the 15 in the states of Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama, in the south, and in Indiana and Illinois, in the American Midwest.

In the early hours of Saturday, in the city of Belvidere, the roof and part of the facade of the Apollo Theater collapsed during a concert by a heavy metal band.

In Arkansas, devastating tornadoes killed five people, according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, governor of this rural southern state, during a news conference. On Saturday, Sanders declared a general state of emergency and mobilized the National Guard, after speaking with President Joe Biden.

Residents of Little Rock, the state capital, woke up this Saturday to a grim image of overturned cars, huge trees ripped from the ground, broken telephone lines and destroyed homes.

Tornadoes and violent storms leave at least 18 dead in the US

At least 18 people died due to the violent storms and tornadoes that hit the states of Arkansas, Indiana and Illinois, in the United States (USA) on Friday (31). The weather phenomena head towards the northeast of the country.

The city of Wynne, in the northeast of the state, is “cut in two by damage from east to west”, lamented the mayor, Jennifer Hobbs, to CNN.

In neighboring Mississippi, the crisis management service reported one death and several injuries in Pontotoc County, south of Memphis.

An elderly man in Alabama died when a tornado struck his home, Huntsville authorities said.

Severe weather hit the US East Coast on Saturday, with thunderstorms, hail and strong winds expected to continue into Sunday.

(Source: AFP)

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