At least 23 including children are dead and many got injured, in apparent large tornado in Alabama that happened on Sunday. The authorities said that the toll could raise. The details regarding how many got injured are not yet been clear. Officials said that they are still on their effort to identify the persons who got killed and injured.

The search efforts are stopped by authorities overnight due to the extremely dangerous weather conditions. Reports says that an among the people killed, an 8-year-old girl in Beauregard is also included. Authorities have blocked off the area.

The Lee County coroner Bill Harris said” We’ve never had a mass fatality situation, that I can remember, like this in my lifetime”.

East Alabama Medical Center, a hospital at Alabama reports that more than 40 injured patients had been admitted in the hospital as a result of the tornado and they expected more.

The tornado killed the people in the Beauregard region in Lee County. This is an area area in the eastern part of the state near the Georgia line, Rita Smith with the Lee County Emergency Management Agency told The Associated Press.

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