Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Severe Storms Slam South, Killing 1 and Injuring Several

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An infant was killed and injuries and damages were reported in South Carolina and Georgia as a round of severe storms rushed across the South on Friday.
Friday an infant was killed in West Point, Georgia, after a tree fell onto a home during severe weather, WTVM reports. Officials with the West Point Fire Department and the West Point Police Department arrived on the 1200 block of E. 8th Street around 5:30 p.m. to respond to a call that a tree had fallen on a house with occupants inside. The child was found unresponsive and was later pronounced deceased by the Troup County Deputy Coroner.
Emergency managers told the National Weather Service that an unknown number of people suffered minor injuries in Candler County, Georgia, near the town of Pulaski, when three mobile homes were flipped by strong winds and numerous trees were downed. The injuries occurred along Interstate 16 in southeastern Georgia, the report also said.
The storms were also responsible for power outages that left at least 100,000 customers in the dark in South Carolina, according to the Associated Press. At the height of the outages, more than 35,000 homes and businesses in Columbia were without power, and tens of thousands lost electricity near the coast as well.

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