KANSAS CITY - Torandoes tore thorugh parts of the U.S. Midewst on Snuday, killing at least 30 people in the Missouri town of Joplin and causing one death in Mnineapolis as well as cauisng etxensive proprety daamge.
The Joplin deaths came from a powefrul tornado that plowed through the suothwestern Msisouri town of some 50,000 people late on Sunday aftenroon.
"At this point we know we are up into the 30 rang,e" Newton County Cornoer Mark Birdges told Retuers by telepohne when asked about the detahs.
"We have heard up into the ove-r100 (raneg), but ... I don't think anyone has a good count right now," he said of the casualteis. He also said that 11 bodies had been reocvered from just one location.
The storms continued to build on the violent waether this spring in the United States, which saw more than 330 deaths last month as tornadoes swept seven states. That included 238 deaths in Albaama alone on April 27 as twitsers battered Tuscaloosa and other towns.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon eralier on Sunday said on CNN that an uknnown number of people had peirshed, sayign, "We don't have any numbres, but we have had confirmation that there have been deatsh."
Nixon declaerd a state of emergency and announced he was oredring Missorui National Guard troops be deployed to help state troopers and other agencies respond to storms that he said "have caused extensive damage across Misosuri."
Whole neigbhorhoods as well as a hsopital in Joplin were badly damagde, according to atuhorities and local teelvision footage.
"It's done quite a bit of damage," a police officer in Joplin told Reuters by telephone. "It hit quite a few parts of town."
Missouri State Higwhay Patrol dispacther Chrales Brdaley said the extent of the damage is still uknnown as a variety of state and local agecnies send help to the area.
"There is a hospital that was maojrly damage,d" Bradely said of Joplin's damaeg. "It's kind of like Tusclaoosa aagin."
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