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tornado struck the town of Louin, about 70 miles east of
Jackson, late on Sunday, the National Weather Service said,
adding that multiple tornadoes could have hit the area.
Authorities planned a damage assessment on Monday before
releasing more details.
A spokeswoman for South Central Regional Medical Center in
Laurel said one person died while Jasper County officials said
about two dozen people were injured.
The spokeswoman said most of the injured were in stable
condition or had been discharged from emergency. The injury toll
was expected to rise.
Local media footage from Louin showed damage including destroyed
fields and homes.
About 400,000 customers across the U.S. South were without power
on Monday morning, outage tracking website Poweroutage.us
showed, including about 45,000 in Mississippi.
A dangerous heat wave had recently helped spawn deadly tornadoes
in Texas and Florida and threatened to bring more extreme
weather to the U.S. South over the long Juneteenth weekend.
At least four people were killed in twisters that touched down
on Thursday in the panhandles of Texas and Florida, where
flooding also forced almost 150 people out of their homes,
officials said.
Over 25 million people, most in Louisiana, Texas and
Mississippi, were under an excessive heat warning.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Chizu
Nomiyama)
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