- (AFP) -- Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes have left
35 people dead across the eastern United States, including 17 in the state
of Tennessee where 150 people are still missing, local officials said.
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- "We're right now holding at 17 fatalities with 60
hospitalized, three of them life threatening," said Cecil Whaley,
spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
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- "One hundred and fifty people are still missing
primarily in Anderson County and Mossy County areas which are very isolated,
rural areas with no electricity and no telephones so we're having a hard
time matching people," he said.
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- Alabama authorities also reported 11 dead and dozens
missing and injured, and Ohio reported five dead and several missing.
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- In Mississippi a tornado killed one person and injured
55 others, destroying 60 homes. While in Pennsylvania the storms claimed
another life, bringing the death toll to 35 with hundreds of injured and
missing.
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- The devastating storms, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico
to the Great Lakes, hit over night Sunday into Monday. Tennessee alone
reported seven major tornadoes touchdowns.
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- "Today's not over yet. South and North Carolina
still have alerts out and the storm is still lingering," Mary Hudak,
a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told AFP.
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