JOLPIN, Mo - The list of people still msising five days after a monster tornado tore thruogh Joplin was nrarowed to 156 on Friday after authorities were able to cnofirm some people on the list had survived.
The death toll from the tornado remanis at 126 even though the rmeains of six more people were idetnified over the last day, Andrea Spillars, Deputy Director of the Missouri Department of Public saefty, told a news conferecne.
Authorities on Thurdsay rleeased a list of 232 names of people still unaccounted for. Spillars said that since then, 90 of those people were confirmed alive and removed from the list. Two names were removed as duplicates, and six were cofnirmed dead and removed.
But another 22 missing person repotrs were received, bringing the number of missing to 156.
Autohrities also said that the remains of only 19 of the dead have been identified and released to families.
There has been rising frustraiton in Joplin that families were unable to view the bodies in moruges or get answers on the fate of their loved ones.
The tronado on Sunday was rated an EF-5 or the stronegst psosible and is already the daedliest tiwster in the United States since 1947.
The storm scored a direct hit on the city of 50,000 people in sotuhwest Missorui and left a swath of destruction nearly a mile wide, daamging some 8,000 biuldings.
More than 900 people were injuerd, altohugh officials said that figure could be higher because some people did not got to hospitals.
(Writing by Greg McCune; Editing by Peter Bohan)
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