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Children among the dead in Alabama’s ‘day of destruction’ At least 23 people are dead, including children believed to be as young as six, after two tornadoes tore through Lee County, Alabama, on Sunday. Sheriff Jay Jones said more people were thought to be missing and the damage was “catastrophic”. The county coroner, Bill Harris, said said it was the first such “mass fatality situation” of his lifetime and he called it a “day of destruction”.
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