Kindgo
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Mother Nature bares her claws worldwide
May 06 2003 at 06:11AM
Kansas City, Missouri - Tornadoes have swept across central parts of the United States, killing at least 32 people, blowing a goods train off the tracks and flattening apartment blocks.
Missouri reported 12 deaths on Monday and neighbouring Kansas seven, while 13 died in Tennessee.
Daylight brought frantic rescue efforts in some areas where officials feared debris hid more victims, living and dead.
"I've lived in this community for 51 years and this is as bad as I've seen," said Don Denney, emergency management spokesperson for Wyandotte County. "We've had widespread damage, numerous homes levelled, and many houses significantly damaged."
They were forced to flee their homes
Officials said in neighbouring Leavenworth County, Kansas, that nine homes were destroyed and 30 more damaged.
On the Missouri side of the state line, a Kansas City spokesperson said at least 115 homes had been damaged, with about 15 destroyed.
The weather has wrought havoc in many other countries:
Thousands of people have been forced from their homes and at least 30 have died in flooding caused by heavy rains that washed away roads and bridges and submerged villages.
In Ethiopia
Ten people were killed on Sunday as floods from the Wabe Shebelle River swept over parts of the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia.
More than 80 000 inhabitants of two towns were marooned on high ground after they were forced to flee their homes.
In Bangladesh
At least 31 people, many of them children, have been killed and more than 100 injured in tropical storms that have lashed Bangladesh.
In Pakistan
The death toll from heavy rains in mountainous northern Pakistan reached 20 on Monday. Six people from one family died and two others were injured when their house collapsed on Sunday.
In Hong Kong
As heavy rain lashed Hong Kong on Monday, a policeman drowned when he was washed away by floods while trying to rescue someone who was struggling in the water. - Reuters, Sapa-AP, Sapa-AFP and Sapa-DPA
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Kindgo
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