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51 killed as powerful tornado slams Oklahoma City

At least 51 people, including seven children at an elementary school, were killed as a massive tornado slammed Oklahoma City in south central US leaving widespread destruction in its wake. Emergency personnel were scouring the rubble at flattened Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, hours after the tornado struck Monday afternoon, a video from CNN affiliate KFOR showed. As ...
Massive tornado jolts Oklahoma City in US

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 ...
Tornadoes tear through central US

Tornadoes tore through three central American states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa with baseball-sized hail and wind blasts ripping roofs off homes and turning trees to matchsticks, as severe weather swept the region. A large "violent and extremely dangerous" tornado was spotted Sunday night on the southwest side of Wichita, Kansas and a second confirmed one was seen near Edmond, Oklahoma, the ...
Horror and heartbreak in Oklahoma Children among the dozens dead in devastating tornado

Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., on May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as half a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (Associated ...
Monster tornado tears through Oklahoma City

A massive tornado has torn through Oklahoma City, killing at least 51 people and destroying everything in its path. The tornado flattened entire neighbourhoods in the southern suburb of Moore with winds of up to 320kph, leaving buildings on fire and landing a direct blow to an elementary school. Several children were pulled alive from the wreckage of Plaza Towers Elementary School after ...

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Slide Show Oklahoma in the Tornado’s Wake

On Monday afternoon, a tornado more than a mile wide rolled through Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, leaving behind scenes of devastation, including the wreckage of the Plaza Towers Elementary School. By late evening, over fifty people were already confirmed dead, with many more missing. Here are images of the tornado’s ...
Oklahomans Share Stories Of Survival In Massive Tornado

MOORE, Oklahoma - A massive tornado touched down near Newcastle, and tore through southwest Oklahoma City and Moore Monday afternoon. At least three people have been killed, and multiple people have been injured, according to ...
Oklahoma Attorney General Seeks Execution Date For Convicted Killer

OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General Scott Pruitt is asking for an execution date for a man convicted in the 1979 slaying of a woman in Tulsa. Pruitt on Monday said in an appeals court filing that Anthony Rozelle Banks had exhausted his appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier in the day turned away a request by Banks for a hearing. The 60-year-old Banks wasn't charged until 1997 when he ...
7 children found dead at Oklahoma school wrecked by tornado officials say

By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News Seven children were found drowned at a tornado-flattened elementary school where rescuers were searching the rubble for survivors as parents kept a heart-breaking vigil, officials said Monday night.The students killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School were among at least 51 lives claimed by the monster twister that ripped through Oklahoma City ...
Two years after its own deadly tornado Joplin Mo. sends help to Oklahoma

As Kansas Citians clean up after Sunday nights severe storms, another ominous front is taking aim at the metropolitan area. The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch through 10 p.m. on Monday for Kansas City and much of the surrounding area. Thunderstorms are expected to roll in early Monday ...

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51 killed as powerful tornado slams Oklahoma City

At least 51 people, including seven children at an elementary school, were killed as a massive tornado slammed Oklahoma City in south central US leaving widespread destruction in its wake.

Emergency personnel were scouring the rubble at flattened Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, hours after the tornado struck Monday afternoon, a video from CNN affiliate KFOR showed.

As nightfall approached, determined searchers in hard hats dug in the debris for students possibly trapped, but officials cited by the news channel described the work as a recovery, not rescue, effort.

Footage from local television stations also showed a number of other levelled buildings and a funnel cloud stretching from the sky to the ground, kicking up debris.

The tornado was estimated to be at least 2 miles wide at one point as it moved through Moore, in the southern part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, KFOR reported.

Storm damage has been reported in Cleveland County, which includes Moore; McClain County, which includes Newcastle; and Oklahoma County, CNN reported citing Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management representative Terri Watkins.

"After the ear-shattering howl of the killer storm subsided, survivors emerged from shelters to see an apocalyptic vision -- the remnants of cars twisted and piled on each other to make what had been a parking lot look like a junk yard," according to a CNN report. ...