27 killed, as a storm swept through us – world

London, Kentucky – at least 27 people were killed by storm systems that swept through parts of the US middle west and south. The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, announced on Saturday that 18 of the deaths in his state and 10 others were hospitalized in a critical condition.

A devastating Tornado in Kentucky damaged houses, threw vehicles and left many people homeless. Seventeen of deaths were in the Laurel district in the southeast of the state and one in Pulaski County. The 39-year-old veteran Roger Leslie Leatherman, major of the fire brigade, died of injuries when he reacted to the fatal weather.

Parts of two dozen state streets were closed and some were able to take days to open again, said Besear. He also said that the number of fatalities could still increase.

“We now need the whole world to be really good neighbors in this region,” said the governor.

Eric Gibson, director of the state emergency management, said hundreds of houses were damaged,

Kayla Patterson, her husband and her five children, crowded in a tub in her basement in London, the County seat when the Tornado raged around her.

“You could literally only hear the things in the distance, broke everywhere, just like a freight train,” she recalled on Saturday. “It was terrible.”

The family finally appeared to the sounds of sirens and panicked neighbors. While the family's own home was spared, others were demolished directly, said Patterson when the sound of power tools buzzed in the background. The neighborhood was littered with cutting wood, metal sheet, insulation and stray objects-a suitcase, a sofa, some six-packs of paper towels.

Rescue in action

The rescuers looked for survivors all night and until the morning, said the Sheriff's office. Emergency shelter was set up at a local high school and donations of food and other necessities came.

The storm was the latest storm that caused deaths in Kentucky and widespread damage.

Two months ago, at least 24 people died in a round of storms that dipped streams and hiding streets. Hundreds of humans were saved and most of the deaths were caused by vehicles that put in floods.

A storm at the end of 2021 produced Tornados, in which 81 people and parts of the cities in the west were killed by Kentucky. In the following summer floods flooded parts of Ostkentucky and leave dozens more dead.

Around 1,200 tornados come to the USA annually and have been reported in all 50 states over the years. The researchers found in 2018 that fatal tornados in the traditional “Tornado-Gasse” by Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas and more often occur in parts of the densely populated and tree-filled mid-south region.

Agencies over Xinhua