The tornado claimed the lives of at least 26 people and obliterated one rural town.
By Sophie Long in Rolling Fork, Mississippi and Antoinette Radford in LondonAt least 26 people have died in Mississippi and Alabama after a tornado tore through the southern US states.
The lush farmland that surrounds it is completely untouched, the trees aren't even bent out of shape by wind. Then suddenly you see the houses that were in the tornado's path.Homes where family and friends had gathered less than 24 hours before, ready for the weekend, have been reduced to rubble. Francisco McKnight told the BBC it was a miracle that he is alive. The only warning he had was the sound, he said - he had never heard anything like the noise of the wind on Friday night and never wants to again.
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