At least seven people died on Thursday as a result of tornadoes and severe storms in the states of Alabama and Georgia in the southeastern United States, according to local authorities. County in central Alabama.
A six-year-old boy was killed in Buttes County, Georgia, 60 miles south of Atlanta, after a tree fell on the car he was in, local media reported, later confirmed by Gov. Brian Kemp.
“Our entire family is saddened by this tragedy,” Kemp wrote on Twitter.
A total of at least 45 tornadoes hit the southeast on Thursday, according to a preliminary report released by the American Storm Prediction Center.
A state of emergency has been declared in Georgia and some counties in Alabama.
And the tornado hit the Dallas area, where it destroyed the roofs of buildings and caused “significant damage,” according to Selma Mayor James Perkins, who urged residents to get off the roads and away from downed power lines.
The municipality added on its Facebook page: “Municipal teams will be dispatched as soon as possible to clean up.”
Tornadoes are a phenomenon that is difficult to predict and replicate in the United States, especially in the central and southern regions of the country.
At the end of November, 36 tornadoes were recorded in Alabama and Mississippi, as a result of which two people were killed.
