At least 23 others were treated at local hospitals in northern Tennessee’s Montgomery County, officials said.
Severe storms that tore through central Tennessee killed six people Saturday and sent nearly two dozen to the hospital as homes and businesses were damaged in multiple cities.
Three people, including a child, were killed after a tornado struck Montgomery County north of Nashville near the Kentucky state line, county officials said in a news release. Montgomery County officials said another 23 there were treated for injuries at hospitals.
And the Nashville Emergency Operation Center said in a post on a social media account that another three people were killed by severe storms there.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office noted it was “still in the search and rescue phase of this disaster.
