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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Aleksandra Michalska and Joseph Ax

Death toll at 26 after powerful tornado tears across Mississippi

An American flag sits amidst the wreckage of a home after thunderstorms spawning high straight-line winds and tornadoes ripped across the state in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, U.S. March 27, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama as it leveled hundreds of buildings and spawned at least one devastating tornado.

The tornado stayed on the ground for about an hour and cut a path of destruction some 170 miles (274 km) long, according to Nicholas Price, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi.

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