Devastating storms pounded three central US states Thursday night, spawning massive tornadoes and claiming at least three lives, officials said Friday.
Devastating storms pounded three central US states Thursday night, spawning massive tornadoes and claiming at least three lives, officials said Friday.
The powerful storms raked through the adjoining states of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.
«We have three known fatalities,» Sheriff Randall Dodds, of Logan County in west-central Ohio, told a CBS affiliate.
«The devastation was such that we have to get heavy equipment into these areas to be able to move this material where homes have collapsed, to see if there’s anybody injured,» he said, adding, «it’s going to take a long time.»
In all, more than 13 million people in the central United States were placed under tornado watches Thursday as the storms approached, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
