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Oklahoma tornado kills 91 toll to rise
At least 91 people were killed, 20 of them children, as a massive tornado ripped through parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs in the US, flattening homes and businesses and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary schools. Emergency crews and volunteers worked through the early morning hours Tuesday in a frantic search for survivors of the tornado which appeared to have wrought the ...
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Oklahoma City faces second deadly tornado in 13 years
A devastating tornado in the Oklahoma City suburbs in southcentral US, that has killed at least 51 people, including seven children at an elementary school, was second only to one in May 1999 in its fury. The twister 13 years ago, rated a maximum EF5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale, killed 36 people and smashed some of the same communities, according to CNN. On May 3, 1999, a total of 74 tornadoes ...
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10 killed as powerful tornado slams Oklahoma City
At least 10 people were killed as a powerful two-mile-wide tornado slammed Oklahoma City in South Central US ripping roofs off buildings, levelling homes, and cutting a wide path of destruction. Besides the 10 dead, at least 20 more, including eight children, were injured. Injuries ranged from minor to critical. More than 32,000 electricity customers in Oklahoma lost power, according to latest ...
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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 ...
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Oklahoma Tornado Death Toll Lowered
Flipped vehicles are piled up outside the heavily damaged Moore Medical Center after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, ...
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Obama approves major disaster declaration for Oklahoma statement at 10 a.m. to come
View results President Obama continued to receive updates overnight on the devastating tornadoes that blew across Moore, Okla., Monday, and he will deliver a statement in the State Dining Room at 10 a.m. Tuesday.He spoke ...
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Among Oklahoma debris U.S. flag emerges as sign of strength hope
View results Tragedy, devastation, suffering and loss may be the prevailing moods in Oklahoma, where recent tornadoes have torn apart a whole community of 41,000 and left dozens dead and more than 100 injured. But among the debris now hangs an American flag.It belongs to ...
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Medical examiner 24 dead in Oklahoma twister
A resident surveys the damage after the tornado hit the area near 149th and Drexel on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Oklahoma City, Okla. (AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Chris ...
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Oklahoma Tornados Finding Aid Giving Aid
Aid groups are mobilizing relief efforts to help victims of the storm. Here, Candice Lopez, left, and Stephanie Davis help clean debris from Thelma Cox's mobile home near Shawnee, Okla., after it was destroyed ...
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Oklahoma medical examiner revises lowers death toll from tornado
Several children have been pulled out of the rubble alive at a school in an Oklahoma City suburb. Rescue workers lifted children from the rubble before they were taken to a triage center set up at Plaza Towers Elementary School. (May ...
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