Tornadoes, wildfires sweep across US as massive storm leaves at least 32 dead


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  • Sunday, 16 Mar 2025

This handout image released by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on March 15, 2025 shows a damaged marina on Clearwater Lake, near Piedmont, Missouri, after severe storms hit the area. At least 33 people were killed and dozens more injured on March 15 when tornadoes and violent storms raked across the central United States, officials said. – Missouri State Highway Patrol/AFP

PIEDMONT, Missouri, United States (AP): Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that killed at least 32 people ripped its way across the central and southern United States.

Dakota Henderson said he and others rescuing trapped neighbours found five bodies scattered in the debris on Friday (March 14) night outside what remained of his aunt's house in hard-hit Wayne County, Missouri. Scattered twisters killed at least a dozen people in the state, authorities said.

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