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Hurricane Helene: twin babies who died with mother become youngest victims

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Kobe Williams, 27, and boys Khyzier and Khazmir died after relatives say tree fell through roof in Thomson, Georgia
Twin babies who died alongside their mother in Georgia on Thursday became the youngest known victims of the monster Hurricane Helene and the storm’s devastating aftermath.
Obie Williams could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he answered his daughter’s daily phone call last week as the storm tore through her rural Georgia town after roaring across the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in northwestern Florida.
Kobe Williams, 27, and her newborn twin boys were hunkering down at their trailer home in Thomson, Georgia, and starting to fear for their safety. She promised her father she would heed his advice to shelter in the bathroom with her month-old babies until the storm passed.
Minutes later, she was no longer answering her family’s calls.

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