Tornado strikes Missouri

A tornado killed 24 people in the Missouri town of Joplin, local media reported, less than a month after twisters carved a swathe of destruction through the US southeast.The Springfield News-Leader newspaper reported that Ryan Nicholls of the Springfield-Greene County office of emergency management confirmed that 24 people were
killed. Joplin, located just miles from the borders of Kansas and Oklahoma, took a "direct hit" from a tornado, the newspaper reported."The Home Depot is leveled. The Walmart is destroyed.Gas stations, buildings. Everywhere I could see was either heavily damaged or completely destroyed," said John Miller, a freelance photographer for the News-Leader."I saw firefighters and paramedics pull a young girl out of a car at the Home Depot," Miller said. "Part of the building had fallen on the car." The tornado struck less than a month after a tornado outbreak left 354 dead across seven US states.
-PTI