21 killed as alleged tornados met Missouri today, Kentucky-Telangana

The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, said on Saturday morning that 14 people in the state were confirmed dead, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Washington: At least 21 people were killed when alleged tornados swept through parts of the US states of Missouri and Kentucky, the authorities said.

The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, said on Saturday morning that 14 people in the state were confirmed dead, the Xinhua news agency reported.

“Kentucky, today we start with the difficult news that we have lost at least 14 of our people through the storms of the last night, but unfortunately this number is expected to grow if we receive further information,” said Beshear in a post on X.

Previously, John Root, Sheriff of Laurel County in the southeast of Kentucky, described the incident as a “mass accident event”.

NBC News reported that five people were killed in St. Louis and two people in Scott County, Southeasters Missouri, while local officials said that more than 5,000 houses were affected by the streak on Friday afternoon.

According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the country is affected by around 1,200 tornados every year.

The National Weather Service said that thunderstorms were widespread on Friday in parts of the parts of Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio.

At least half a dozen tornados that extended to the Atlantic coast in Missouri and neighboring Illinois and another storm, including another tornado that was reported in New Jersey.

Two people were killed on Friday in separate incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside of Washington, when trees fell on their cars as media reports.

Kristi Noem, Secretary of the US Homeland Security, said she spoke to Missouri, Kentucky and Illinois governors to offer federal resources to help her states deal with the consequences.

“We talked about how the emergency management, while the best way to lead us by the local authorities, can best take the home protection department from immediate measures to offer resources and support,” she wrote on social media.

Noem has campaigned for a change in the federal strategy for the management of disasters under the Trump administration by shifting responsibility to states.

The proposed budget of US President Donald Trump includes profound cuts for the Federal Administration Agency, which falls below its area of ​​responsibility.