The search for survivors continues after dozens of devastating tornadoes tore through six states, leaving at least 94 people dead, dozens missing and towns in ruin.
Rescuers in the US on Sunday were desperately searching for survivors after dozens of devastating tornadoes tore through six states, leaving at least 94 people dead, dozens missing and towns in ruin.
More than 80 people are believed to have been killed in Kentucky alone, many of them workers at a candle factory, while at least six died in an Amazon warehouse in Illinois where they were on the night shift processing orders ahead of Christmas. The small town of 10,000 people was described as "ground zero" by officials, and appeared post-apocalyptic: city blocks leveled; historic homes and buildings beaten down to their slabs; tree trunks stripped of their branches; cars overturned in fields.Mr Beshear said there were 110 people working at the candle factory when the storm hit, causing the roof to collapse.CNN played a heart-rending plea posted on Facebook by a factory employee.
More than half a million homes in several states were left without power, according to PowerOutage.com.One of the tornadoes hit the Amazon warehouse in the southern Illinois city of Edwardsville, with around 100 workers believed to have been trapped inside.
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