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Over 250 killed as tornadoes ravage US south
- 4-28-2011
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AFP) – Tornadoes and storms carved a trail of "catastrophic" destruction across the southern United States, killing over 250 people in the worst US weather disaster in years, officials said Thursday.
Shocked residents of cities and towns in more half a dozen states crippled by the ferocious spring storms picked through the remains of their destroyed homes, businesses, schools and churches, in surreal scenes of devastation more common to war zones and massive earthquakes.
The severe weather killed 162 people on Wednesday in Alabama alone, authorities told AFP, and the White House announced that President Barack Obama would travel to the state on Friday for a first-hand look at the devastation.
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