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 by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) March 4, 2019
A tornado killed 14 people and caused "catastrophic" damage in the southern US state of Alabama on Sunday, a local sheriff said. "At this time, we have 14 confirmed fatalities," Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said in a video posted on Facebook by a journalist from a local CBS affiliate. Other people have been hospitalized, some with "very serious injuries," while the search is still continuing for more who are missing, he said. Jones described the damage caused by the storm as "catastrophic, based on the destruction of homes that we've seen." The swath of destruction caused by the storm was a quarter mile (0.4 kilometers) wide and stretched for the "several miles that it traveled on the ground," according to Jones. While the sheriff referred to a single storm, some US media outlets reported that multiple twisters had hit the county.
Winds battering central Italy kill four Rome (AFP) Feb 23, 2019 Strong winds whipping through central Italy killed four people on Saturday, including a teenager who died when his father fell off the roof and crushed him, media reports said. The 14-year old in Capena near Rome was holding the ladder for his father as he attempted to fix damage to the family roof, when the latter was knocked off by a gust of wind, falling six metres and landing on his son, the Fatto Quotidiano daily said. Two men in their 70s were killed by a farm wall that collapsed on top of ... read more
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