WSFA 12 News Montgomery, AL |Tornado kills 8 in southern Oklahoma
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK., (AP) -- A large, violent tornado ripped through a southern Oklahoma town
late Tuesday evening, killing eight people and injuring dozens of others, authorities said. Severe weather also caused damage and power outages in metro Oklahoma City and western Texas.
Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten says the death toll in the town of Lone Grove rose to eight early Wednesday and 14 people sustained serious injuries. Chester Agan, assistant emergency manager for Carter County, says structures have been damaged or destroyed throughout the town of about 4,600, located some 100 miles south of Oklahoma City.
Agan says search and rescue crews are combing through rubble to find victims.
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