Three children and one woman were killed Saturday in powerful storms that swept across the southern US, authorities said.
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In West Monroe, Louisiana, a 13-year-old boy drowned in a drainage area in what officials believe was a weather-related incident, said Glen Springfield, spokesman for the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office. Several streets had been closed in the city of around 13,000 and a flood warning had been issued for the area, officials said.
Huggins said he got a call from the National Weather Service around 11:20 a.m. about a storm system that was on the ground and headed towards Franklin."We started trying to get people activated to get eyeballs on it, and by then the thing was moving fast and it went right through town,” he said. In Alto, Texas, Marry Lamar with the volunteer fire department said a suspected tornado touched down Saturday, and several people were injured. The front wall of a gym at a school was blown off as were windows and doors at a fire house, Lamar said.
Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. told NBC affiliate WLBT the storms “just came in all at once” with heavy winds and rain."It looked like everyone was safe,” he said. “It's unbelievable. We’ve been blessed. What we’re going to do now is begin to recover."
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