Tornado batters US State of Kentucky, at least 50 feared dead

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• Dec 11, 2021 | moderator

Kentucky: At least 50 people have been feared dead after a tornado ripped through the southern US state of Kentucky, its governor told reporters.

Huge gust of storm battered large swathes of the country, devastating countless counties, with the strongest tornado tearing 200 miles through the state, governor Andy Beshear said.

“I fear that there are more than 50 dead … probably closer to somewhere between 70 to 100, its devastating,” he said, adding this was the “most sever tornado event in Kentucky’s history.”

The governor said a roof collapse at a candle factory "resulted in mass casualties" in the city of Mayfield.

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"Before midnight I declared a state of emergency," Beshear said.

The tornado came as storms wreaked havoc in multiple US states.

The tornado ripped through a massive Amazon warehouse in the US state of Illinois on Friday, officials said, with local media reporting around 100 workers trapped inside.

Rescue team were engaged in rescuing employees at the warehouse – a third of which was reduced to rubble – who were on the night shift processing orders ahead of the Christmas holidays.

The Collinsville Emergency Management Agency described it as a “mass casualty incident” with “multiple subjects trapped at Amazon Warehouse”.

A tornado warning had been in effect in the area at the time of the incident.