Alabama: Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday, killing at least 14 people including eight in the southern Alabama town of Enterprise, emergency management officials said.
The victims in Enterprise died when a twister caused part of a high school to collapse, and five people were killed elsewhere across Alabama. Another death was reported in Missouri.
State officials in Alabama have sent rescue teams and ambulances to aid the search for survivors.
The Montgomery Advertiser newspaper said state emergency managers were asked to send a "mass fatality" recovery team to Enterprise in Alabama's Coffee County.
State officials have sent search and rescue teams, ambulances, generators and emergency lights to aid the search for survivors.
In Caulfield, south-central Missouri, a tornado killed a girl in a mobile home and damaged six other homes and two gasoline stations, officials said.
Parts of Midwestern states and regions as far south as the Gulf Coast to the Florida Panhandle had been under tornado watches or warnings most of the day.
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