At least three people were killed as several
powerful tornadoes hit the southern United States on Tuesday, officials said.
Tornadoes lashed Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida,
destroying homes and businesses.
The deaths occurred when mobile homes were destroyed
in Louisiana and Mississippi, officials said.
Meteorologists said the storm system could hit
Alabama and Georgia later on Wednesday.
Two people died at a trailer park in Convent,
southern Louisiana, where 90% of the homes were destroyed, emergency services
said.
"These travel trailers were picked up, thrown a
considerable distance and just mangled," Louisiana Governor John Bel
Edwards said.
The governor said it was a "minor miracle"
that more people had not been killed because most of the trailers were occupied
when the storm hit.
At least 30 people were taken to hospital in the
state, most of them from the trailer park.
The other death occurred near the southern
Mississippi town of Purvis, the National Weather Service said.
A tornado was also reported in the northern Florida
town of Pensacola, the weather service said.
Local media reported that three buildings in an
apartment complex had been badly damaged and thousands of people in the region
were without power.
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