At least 24 people were killed, including nine children by the tornado that devastated the Oklahoma City area on Monday and destroyed the town of Moore, Oklahoma is being labeled as perhaps “the worst tornado in American history.” That assessment could very well be true with a quickly mounting death toll that stood at 51 as of 9pm Monday night. Search & recovery crews were digging through the rubble as night fell in Oklahoma, but not before the bodies of two dozen third-grade school children were pulled from one of two schools completely flattened by the twister.
Some 150 people were also reportedly hospitalized at that same hour and some 30% of them were said to be in critical condition after the tornado tore through a 20-mile path of destruction and death, snashing an entire community that returned to find nothing left. First-responders were on the scene as quickly as they could navigate all of the roadblocks and debris, and were said to hear the cries of help from the many people who were trapped in the nountains of mangled homes.
24 Dead, Including Nine Children In What Is Being Called “Worst American Tornado Ever” was originally published on kissrichmond.com
