At least 23 people, some of them children, died after a tornado swept through the US state of Alabama on Sunday, and the death toll was expected to rise as rescuers searched through the rubble of destroyed homes, authorities said.
"The challenge is the sheer volume of the debris where all the homes were located," Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said in an interview with CNN."It's the most I've seen that I can recall."
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