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Tornado-hit city faces humanitarian crisis
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April 30, 2011, Saturday
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THE mayor of the worst hit town during a deadly tornado in Southern United States said yesterday his town is facing a "humanitarian crisis" as it struggles to dig out of the rubbles left by the deadliest storm in the country since the Great Depression.
Walter Maddox, mayor of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, told a news briefing the city is facing "humanitarian crisis," after the tornado that struck Wednesday night. He said the 93,000-people-town has a confirmed death toll of 45, and over 990 were injured, while up to 446 were unaccounted for.
The city saw wide spread destruction as the tornado left in its wake a trail of destruction that is half mile wide and 5.9 miles long. The tornado path in the town has a population of about 6,000, and other damaged area has some further 13,471 residents. Entire neighborhoods after neighborhoods were flattened.
The destruction left President Barack Obama astounded as he visited the city yesterday. Maddox said Obama told him that he's "never seen devastation like this."
Home to the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa was now struggling to get power and water supply back to city neighborhoods. In Alabama, up to one million homes and businesses remained without power yesterday.
Because of looting reports, Maddox has issued a curfew order and it is still in effect last night from 8 pm to 6 a.m. Saturday morning.
All across the United States, the death toll from Wednesday's storms reached 329 in seven states, including 238 in Alabama, making it the deadliest tornado outbreak since March 1932, when another Alabama storm killed 332 people.
Walter Maddox, mayor of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, told a news briefing the city is facing "humanitarian crisis," after the tornado that struck Wednesday night. He said the 93,000-people-town has a confirmed death toll of 45, and over 990 were injured, while up to 446 were unaccounted for.
The city saw wide spread destruction as the tornado left in its wake a trail of destruction that is half mile wide and 5.9 miles long. The tornado path in the town has a population of about 6,000, and other damaged area has some further 13,471 residents. Entire neighborhoods after neighborhoods were flattened.
The destruction left President Barack Obama astounded as he visited the city yesterday. Maddox said Obama told him that he's "never seen devastation like this."
Home to the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa was now struggling to get power and water supply back to city neighborhoods. In Alabama, up to one million homes and businesses remained without power yesterday.
Because of looting reports, Maddox has issued a curfew order and it is still in effect last night from 8 pm to 6 a.m. Saturday morning.
All across the United States, the death toll from Wednesday's storms reached 329 in seven states, including 238 in Alabama, making it the deadliest tornado outbreak since March 1932, when another Alabama storm killed 332 people.
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