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tornado crossed the Interstate 96 highway to the southeast of
Lansing while flipping cars, with one person dying and three
being left wounded along I-96, the Ingham County Emergency
Management said. Another person passed away when a tree fell on
a home in Lansing, the state capital, emergency officials added.
Three other people - a woman in her early 20s, a 1-year-old girl
and a 3-year-old girl - died in a storm-related car accident
near Cedar Springs in western Michigan, the Kent County
Sheriff's Office said.
The tornado with winds up to 90 miles (145 km) per hour ripped
through Ingham County and crossed into Livingston County on
Thursday night, according to officials.
"There was at least one mobile home flipped over in the
Frenchtown Villa Mobile Home Park," Steve Considine, a local
weather forecaster and official, was quoted as saying in The
Detroit News.
"We have been working with local authorities throughout the
night to monitor damage from the recent severe weather,"
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said in an online post on X,
formerly called Twitter.
She added she will declare a state of emergency to help deliver
resources to the affected areas at the earliest.
Over 460,000 customers in Michigan were without power as of
Friday noon, according to the Poweroutage.us website. The number
was near a million in the late hours of Thursday and early hours
of Friday.
Deadly tornadoes and thunderstorms also recently hit the U.S.
Midwest and South, leaving dozens of homes damaged and at least
three people dead in Indiana and Arkansas in late June.
Dozens were left dead after storms and tornadoes ripped through
Southern and Midwestern sections of the U.S. in late March and
early April.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington)
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