BEAUREGARD, Ala. — Search-and-rescue workers rushed on Monday to help communities that were pummeled by tornadoes that killed at least 23 people, wrecked homes and uprooted trees in central Alabama. Officials in Lee County, Ala. — where the deaths occurred — were assessing the extent of the destruction left in the wake of Sunday’s storms and were sorting through the debris in hopes of finding survivors. Multiple children were killed, including a 6-year-old, officials said, and all of the dead were found the same general area, just south of the city of Opelika, Ala.“We had several families that have probably lost everybody in their whole family,” Bill Harris, the Lee County coroner, told CNN on Monday.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2019 13:28 UTC