At least 18 killed by tornadoes in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa


  • World
  • Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014

LITTLE ROCK Ark. (Reuters) - Workers searched for survivors on Monday in the rubble left by a wave of tornadoes that ripped through the south-central United States a day earlier, killing at least 18 people in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa.

Arkansas was the hardest hit, with at least 16 people dead. Neighbourhoods were torn apart in central Faulkner County, where at least 10 people died in the storm system that produced that first fatalities of this year's U.S. tornado season, authorities said.

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