Twister strikes Ciudad Acuna in Mexico and kills 13, another 12 reported missing

A twister raged through the city of Ciudad Acuna on the U.S.-Mexico border killing at least 13 and with reports of another 12 missing. The twister destroyed homes, flung cars like matchsticks and ripped away an infant from its mother.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 26 May 2015.

In Texas, a vacation home was blown away and the 12 people staying there have been reported as missing – the vacation home was swept by rushing floodwaters. The town is a popular tourist destination.
As revealed by witnesses, the swollen Blanco River had dislodged the vacation house from its foundation and it smashed into a bridge and, only pieces of the home have been found.
Mayor Evaristo Perez Rivera has indicated that 300 people were being treated at local hospitals, and on a rough estimate, nearly 200 homes had been completely destroyed.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has also indicated that he planned to visit Acuna with officials from government agencies.
Ciudad Acuna is a city of 125,000 across from Del Rio, Texas and, the twister had struck a seven-block area which has been devastated.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)


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#tornado #mississippi #christmas Just two days before Christmas, the southern part of the United States Mississippi has been hit by a storm and it has left at least four persons dead apart from causing damages to homes and businesses and flipped cars apart from knocking out power to thousands of homes.
Obviously, Mother Nature has unleashed her anger at the way the world is turning a blind eye to the destruction of the environment and causing Planet Earth to lose its ecological balance.
Due to this storm in Mississippi, Gov. Phil Bryant has declared an emergency for two southeastern counties where officials say four people have reportedly died in the storms and several more were injured. The office of the Governor has revealed that thousands were without power in and around Columbia, which is about 80 miles southeast of Jackson.
As per the Jones County Emergency Management director, the deaths were of a man and woman who were killed inside a mobile home in the storm's path in Laurel. Moreover, about 50 miles southwest, Marion County coroner Norma Williamson has indicated that two people were killed in Columbia, one of them was in a trailer park, the other at a strip mall.
A large number of people were still trapped inside their homes and TV footage showed cars, including an ambulance, flipped over and a few businesses wrecked. Three highways leading into Columbia have been shut down due to downed trees, power lines and other debris. Travel plans will naturally go haywire.
The storms are moving toward Georgia, including Atlanta, and Florida and according to local media reports, a tornado touched down in Amite, Louisiana. It downed a number of power lines and trees and tore the roof off at least one home. Golf ball-sized hail fell in Enterprise, Mississippi, along with some pea-sized hail in the Bude area.