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Oklahoma tornado toll lowered to 24 from 91

As rescuers searched for survivors of Monday's devastating tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs, authorities revised the death toll down to 24 from 91. Nine of the fatalities are children. The Monday afternoon storm carved a trail through the area as much as two miles wide and 17 miles long, CNN reported citing officials. Hardest hit was Moore, Oklahoma - a ...
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At least 10 people were killed as a powerful two-mile-wide tornado slammed Oklahoma City in South Central US ripping roofs off buildings, levelling homes, and cutting a wide path of destruction. Besides the 10 dead, at least 20 more, including eight children, were injured. Injuries ranged from minor to critical. More than 32,000 electricity customers in Oklahoma lost power, according to latest ...
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A gigantic tornado Monday ripped through a suburb of Oklahoma City in the US , destroying a school, sparking fires and flattening homes across whole neighbourhoods. The twister struck about 4.00 p.m. (local time) Monday in Moore city, a suburb of about 55,000 people just south of Oklahoma City in the Oklahoma state. Rescuers were searching for survivors as scores of primary school children ...
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The deadly tornado that ripped through the midwestern state of Oklahoma on Monday left entire neighborhoods flattened, homes, businesses and schools destroyed. As emergency workers sift through the wreckage Tuesday, survivors are sharing their experiences. Among the countless buildings struck by the three-kilometer-wide tornado were two elementary schools - hit just as students were about to ...

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A number of Tennesseans are on their way to Oklahoma to help with search and rescue and recovery efforts after Monday's devastating tornado. Early Tuesday, a Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle left Chattanooga with a Knoxville volunteer for the 13 hour drive to Moore. Once there, they will provide hot meals and other relief supplies to tornado victims. Louie Crowe from Knoxville and ...
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Oklahoma tornado toll lowered to 24 from 91

As rescuers searched for survivors of Monday's devastating tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs, authorities revised the death toll down to 24 from 91. Nine of the fatalities are children.

The Monday afternoon storm carved a trail through the area as much as two miles wide and 17 miles long, CNN reported citing officials.

Hardest hit was Moore, Oklahoma - a suburban town of about 56,000 and the site of eerily similar twisters in 1999 and again four years later.

The state medical examiner's office said 24 people were confirmed dead, including nine children.

Earlier official reports of at least 51 deaths were erroneous, Amy Elliot, chief administrative officer for the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was quoted as saying. More than 200 people were injured.

Terri Watkins, the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokesperson who described Tuesday's search as "board by board," said it was far too soon to account for the devastation of the storm.

Citing Elliot, some media outlets, including the New York Times had earlier put the death toll at at least 91. The toll was likely to climb, it then said citing officials. Hospitals reported at least 145 people injured, 70 of them children. ...