A mile-wide destructive tornadoes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma struck on Monday, causing many fires and primary school, landing a hit, neigbourhoods flattening.
Houses and buildings Moore, south of Oklahoma City was reduced to rubble. The car was across the road and was flat blocks. The local coroner 51 people, including seven children, were slain, said.
National Weather Service storm tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale, said the second most powerful EF-4 line.
Oklahoma President Barack Obama declared a major disaster. State Governor, Mary Fallin, fears many children will be among the dead, 80 members of the National Guard deployed to support the recovery. "Hearts are broken," Fallin said in a press conference.
Hospitals with more than 120 people, including 70 children treated. Some were in critical condition.
The storm on the U.S. portion is known as Tornado Alley. Amateur video showed a dark cloud nalacum street, crushing buildings in its path and scattering debris landscaape by the wind. The winds reached 200 mph.
Authorities in Moore Plaza Towers Elementary School took a direct hit from the tornado, said. The wind, the roof beaten and demolished walls, twisted metal and plastic playground turned into a month.
A triage center parking rescued spent by a human chain surviving children.
School is across the street James, rushing from the cyclone is heard and his five year old adopted son, Aiden, attend classes, school, ran to. "We went there about two minutes later, the school began to come down," he told The Associated Press.
With a megaphone to a man near a Catholic church on Monday night and is said to be the name of the surviving children. Parents to send their children to hear the names of waiting, waiting nearby.
Local reports of 75 children and staff are feared trapped in the rubble, some of them it was the school that says. KFOR reporter on the scene was the launch of the West, they live, which saw 30 children.
Emergency services, infrastructure damage and debris on the roads due to the hard-hit areas struggled to achieve. Television pictures Moore search for survivors in the rubble to help first responders are volunteers. Sporadic fire was without electricity for thousands of homes and broke after the storm.
Oklahoma City police Capt. Dexter Nelson open gas lines, downed power lines and a risk due to tornadoes said.
It was the second day of tornadoes in the area of the delivery. Sunday, and tornadoes and baseball-sized hail, Shawnee, Oklahoma City mobile home park in a city brought to destruction.
79 years old, Glenn Irish and 76 years old, Billy Hutchinson - On Monday, two people deceased due to the bad weather this weekend is known for.
Shawnee tornado flattened homes, since both were slain. Governor Fallin declares emergency in bad weather and flooding in 16 counties.
He can stay inside for twister Monday and urged residents to take shelter.
Severe and widespread destruction, killing dozens of residents of Moore in 1999 was hit by a tornado. The highest level - that occasion, the wind is 302 miles, F5 on the Fujita scale, which reached a record.
Brian Edwards, meteorologist with Accuweather.com, the storm on Monday, it was likely that the spread of the Great Plains and Midwest, according to The Guardian. "We expect a long night. 'S a very, very large and covered with a big storm. Part of the storm in the north as Chicago and Milwaukee."
The National Weather Service said nearly $ 62 million in a population at risk for storms Monday said.
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