At least 14 people in Alabama were killed after tornadoes touched down in the Southeast on Sunday, leaving a trail of devastation, an official said. The tornadoes were part of a series of storms that moved east through Alabama, Georgia and Florida. They uprooted trees and blasted through homes, video footage and photographs posted on Twitter showed. Sheriff Jay Jones of Lee County said in an interview with CNN that 14 people were killed. Lee County’s state mortuary response team had been activated, a spokesman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency said.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2019 00:41 UTC