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Tornadoes cut across Mississippi as severe storms damage 500 homes
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Tornadoes cut across Mississippi as severe storms damage 500 homes

The Indian Express·AP·25 days ago
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Damage to Gene’s Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo) Powerful storms that spawned at least three tornadoes tore through several Mississippi counties, damaging around 500 homes, uprooting trees and injuring at least 17 people, authorities said Thursday. There were no reports of deaths after the tornadoes cut across the state’s southwest late Wednesday evening, said Scott Simmons, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. He said 12 of those hurt were transported from a hard-hit trailer park in the small community of Bogue Chitto, about an hour’s drive south of the state capital in rural Lincoln County. Most of the two dozen homes at Gene’s Mobile Home Supply were flattened into heaps of splintered boards and twisted metal. People picked through the debris Thursday morning under cloudy skies as a chain saw buzzed in the background.…

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