Sharjah 24 – AFP: At least one person was killed and multiple others were missing after powerful tornadoes hit the southern US states of Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas, officials and media reports said.
Storms roared through McCurtain County in the southeastern part of Oklahoma on Friday, leaving one person dead and others missing, US media reported, citing local emergency officials.
In northern Texas near the border with Oklahoma, about 50 homes were damaged or destroyed, the Lamar County Sheriff's Office said after a tornado touched down Friday afternoon.
Lamar County judge Brandon Bell had declared a disaster for the county, it added.
Search and rescue teams and generators were headed to the area of Idabel, a town of about 7,000 in southeast Oklahoma, he tweeted.
The National Weather Service had issued tornado warnings for parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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