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By Ulysse BELLIER TURRELL, United States, Oct 24, 2023 (AFP) – Jonathan Driver, an Arkansas farmer with blackened hands and a thick southern drawl, doesn’t have a minute to spare. He’s been working 16 or 17 hours a day to finish harvesting his crops and — an added stress this year — to find someplace to store tons of excess soybeans. “Getting it out of that field is very crucial,” Driver said as he stepped […]
Washington, United States | AFP | The death toll from a major storm system that has lashed the south-central and eastern US with devastating winds and powerful tornadoes has risen to 18, with dozens of others injured, officials said Saturday. A spokesperson for the emergency management agency in Tennessee, one of the states hardest hit by storms which have struck since Friday, confirmed seven weather-related fatalities to AFP. That came on top of […]
Rolling Fork, United States | AFP | by Inès BEL AIBA A brick house reduced to rubble, its floors strewn with personal effects like a pink backpack and a bottle of shampoo, somehow standing upright. That’s just one of many scenes of the utter devastation left by a tornado that ripped through the southern US state of Mississippi Friday night. And shell-shocked residents of the shattered town of Rolling Fork are now grappling with […]
🚨Per Amory, Mississippi fire scanner: “All of north Amory is gone”. Multiple gas leaks and major damage reported after tornado. Responders having hard time moving through streets due to debris. Forecast Center says debris was being lofted at least 16,000 feet in the air.🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/cebsgts3WP — BIG DAVE (@2bz4thot) March 25, 2023 #SilverCity #Mississippi A wedge tornado reportedly 2mi at the base has destroyed multiple towns in Mississippi and Alabama. Multiple reports of towns […]
Washington, United States | AFP | Six people were killed Friday in a shooting rampage in a rural area of the southern US state of Mississippi, local media reported. Police said a man who is now in custody shot a person at a store in the small town of Arkabutla, and then went to a nearby house and killed a woman, according to media in nearby Memphis, Tennessee. The man then drove his car […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Hurricane Ida, which slammed into the US Gulf Coast at the weekend, could become the costliest weather disaster on record, the UN said Wednesday, hailing though that prevention measures had dramatically limited casualties. Louisiana and Mississippi are still taking stock of the disaster inflicted by the powerful Category 4 storm that hit exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall and devastated the area. Ida is known to have killed […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tornados ripped through the southern US state of Mississippi, killing at least 11 people, officials said Monday as they gathered information on the extent of the damage caused by the storms. The tornadoes caused “catastrophic” damage on Sunday, according to US media, and prompted the National Weather Service to issue its highest level of tornado alert. Governor Tate Reeves tweeted that he had declared a state of emergency “to protect […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — At least six people have died after tornadoes ripped through the southern US state of Mississippi on Sunday, officials said. The tornadoes caused “catastrophic” damage, according to US media, and prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue a tornado emergency, its highest level of tornado alert. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MSEMA) reported one death in Walthall County, two in Lawrence County and three in Jefferson Davis County, all […]
Mississippi, USA (Agence France Presse) — A United States military aircraft has crashed in the US state of Mississippi, killing at least sixteen people, US media reported Monday. The US Marine Corps C-130, a refueling plane, crashed on the Sunflower-Leflore county line, the Clarion-Ledger reported. It cited Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Director Lee Smithson as the source of the information. The Marine Corps has said there was a “mishap” but did not immediately say where […]
LOUISIANA, United States (Reuters) — Several tornadoes lashed southern Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday (February 23), killing at least three people and injuring more than 30 others as the storms destroyed homes and businesses and toppled a water tower, weather and emergency officials said. One of the hardest-hit areas was the Mississippi River hamlet of Convent, Louisiana, where most of the estimated 160 mobile homes at the Sugar Hill RV Park were demolished, the Advocate […]
(Reuters) – At least 34 people across six states were killed in tornadoes unleashed by a ferocious storm system that razed neighborhoods and threatened more destruction in heavily populated parts of the U.S. South on Tuesday. In Arkansas and Mississippi, the hardest hit states, there have been 27 confirmed storm-related deaths and more than 200 people injured over the last three days as tornadoes reduced homes to splinters, snapped trees like twigs and sent trucks […]
