14 dead in 'catastrophic' Alabama tornado

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At least 14 people, some of them children, have died after a tornado swept through Lee County in the southern US state of Alabama.

Emergency workers were expected to toil into the night on Sunday, pulling bodies and the injured out of the rubble of hundreds of homes.

"The challenge is the sheer volume of the debris where all the homes were located," Sheriff Jay Jones said in an interview with CNN. Jones described the damage caused by the storm as"catastrophic, based on the destruction of homes that we've seen."Severe weather unleashed one of numerous possible tornadoes that threatened the Southern United States on Sunday afternoon.Alabama Governor Kay Ivey warned residents more severe weather might be on the way and the state was working to help families who had been impacted.An entire cell tower was taken out.

 

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