05/07/2024

At least 50 are killed by tornadoes in Kentucky’s deadliest storm in a century: Twisters rip through Mississippi Valley ‘shredding’ nursing home and destroying Amazon warehouse

  • At least 50 people are thought to have died in killer tornadoes in Kentucky, though the toll could rise up to 100
  • Tornadoes have ripped through Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, causing mass destruction
  • The Kentucky town of Mayfield was devastated by the storms with the courthouse losing its roof and its tower
  • Early estimates suggest that the tragedy is the deadliest tornado strike in Kentucky in more than a century 
  • A nursing home resident died in Arkansas after the building was ‘shredded’ and another was killed in Missouri 
  • Meanwhile people were trapped in a collapsed Amazon distribution center in Edwardsville, Illinois, on Friday