Tornadoes

Missouri Tornado Toll at 116 and Counting

  • First Posted: May 24 2011 07:37 AM
  • Updated: about 3 hours ago

With more storms on the horizon, rescue workers are desperately combing Joplin for signs of life.

The tornado that tore through Missouri this weekend was the deadliest the United States has seen in six decades, with at least 116 people killed in the town of Joplin. Just weeks after dozens of tornadoes blew through the south, killing more than 200 in Alabama, rescue workers are frantically searching Joplin for any remaining survivors – another set of storms looms today, and about 130 people are still missing. U.S. President Barack Obama will visit the ravaged town of some 50,000 in southwest Missouri, where the final toll will almost certainly wallop that of a tornado in Flint, Mich., in 1953, which killed 116 people as well.

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