Forty-five tornadoes crossed the south-east of the country on Thursday, hitting Alabama and Georgia.
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At least seven people were killed on Thursday, January 12, during the passage of tornadoes in the states of Alabama and Georgia, in the south-east of the United States, local authorities reported. Six people died in the county of Autauga, in the center of Alabama, confirmed Thursday at the France-Presse agency the deputy director of local emergency services, Gary Weaver.
A 6 -year -old child lost his life in the county of Butts, in Georgia, some 80 kilometers south of Atlanta, due to the fall of a tree on the car in which he was, A reported the local press. Information which was confirmed by the Governor of the State, Brian Kemp: “Our whole family has the heart broken by this tragedy”, he reacted On Twitter .
At least forty-five tornadoes crossed the south-east of the country on Thursday, according to a preliminary report of the Storm Prediction Center, the storm forecasting center. The state of emergency has been declared in Georgia and in certain counties of Alabama.
The city of Selma, in the county of Dallas, concerned by the state of emergency, underwent “important damage”, according to municipal services, which had called on the inhabitants not to move on Thursday and to Stay away from the erected power lines. “City teams will be sent as soon as possible to clean,” added the municipality on Facebook.
Tornades, a weather phenomenon as impressive as it is difficult to predict, are relatively common in the United States, especially in the center and the south of the country. Thus the south had already been bereaved at the end of November during the passage of thirty-six tornadoes which had caused the death of two people in Alabama; In December 2021, about eighty people lost their lives after the passage of several tornadoes in Kentucky.