The storm caused damage and killed several people in southeastern states and southern central United States, Friday, 10 December.
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At least fifty people died in Kentucky because of the passage of a tornado, said the governor of this American state, Andrew Beshear, Saturday, December 11th. “I’m afraid there are more than 50 deaths in Kentucky (…), we are probably closer to 70 to 100 people, it’s awful,” he said at a press conference.
“last night, western Kentucky suffered some of the worst tornado damage we’ve ever seen, and we urge everyone to stay in a safe place,” said the governor, who announced ” have declared the state of emergency “.
Last Night Western Kentucky Experienced Some of the Worst Tornado Damage We’ve Seen, and We are Urging Everyone to … https://t.co/xv217e4gk7 //p>- Govandybeshear (@governor Andy Beshear)
The storm has made victims and damage in several southeastern states and southern central United States, Friday.
Saturday, in Illinois, Amazon employees were trapped with a warehouse ravaged the day before by a storm. The Emergency Management Agency of Collinsville spoke “many trapped people in the Amazon warehouse” of Edwardsville, the local media evoking a hundred people still indoors.
The help has worked until the first hours, on Saturday, to try to release from the installation, the third of whom is no more than a rubble, these people who worked at night to treat orders before Christmas. No balance sheet of possible victims were advanced.
The images of the warehouse, shared by American information channels and social networks, show a large part of the roof of the snatching installation, one of the collapsed walls collapsed in the building and rubble scattered on the site.
Three deaths in Arkansas and in Tennessee
The governor of Illinois, Jay Robert Pritzker, said the “Prayers to the inhabitants of Edwardsville”, stressing that the police and the Emergency Management Agency of Illinois coordinated “closely their actions with the Local officials “.
In a statement to the local media, Richard Rocha, spokesman Amazon, said that “the security and well-being” of Amazon’s employees and partners were the Group’s “absolute priority”. “We evaluate the situation and we will share additional information as soon as they are available,” he added.
In the state of Arkansas, a person was killed and twenty were trapped in a rest house, according to the media. But the rescuers have managed to evacuate the trapped people of the building whose structure was “virtually destroyed”, said a Craighead County Manager, Marvin Day, local information channels.
In the Tennessee, at least two people were killed in storm-related incidents, according to an emergency management manager cited by the local media.