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Mississippi: Six killed in tornado in the United States

A massive tornado has killed at least six people in Mississippi. The civil protection of the southern state shared on Sunday evening (local time) on Twitter with. No further details were known at first.

The national weather authority NOAA had previously warned in the late afternoon of possible wind speeds of up to 330 kilometers per hour. It was an “exceptionally rare event,” it said.

There were tornado warnings late in the evening for parts of the neighboring states of Alabama and Tennessee. There, single gusts of wind could reach speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour. In some cases, heavy hail can also be expected, it said. According to the weather authority, hailstones could have a diameter of up to five centimeters.

Alabama governor Kay Ivey had previously declared the emergency. The storms are expected to spread to Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina in the southeast.

According to media reports, other countries in the southern United States were already affected by severe storms during the day. In Texas, a tornado had been confirmed in the morning. In the state, trucks were blown off the street, violent storms damaged around 300 houses and destroyed many of them. Tens of thousands of households in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were temporarily without electricity.

Further storms are also expected in large parts of the USA for Easter Monday.

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