At least 5 people, including 3 children, were killed Saturday in powerful storms that swept across the southern US, authorities said.
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In West Monroe, Louisiana, a 13-year-old boy drowned in a drainage area in what officials believe was a weather-related incident, said Glen Springfield, spokesman for the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office. Several streets were closed in the city of around 13,000 and a flood warning had been issued for the area, officials said.
"A strip of homes on the other side of town over here are completely gone, just gone, everything is gone," Robertson County Emergency Management Coordinator Billy Huggins said.that after a preliminary damage assessment, the tornado in Robertson County was estimated to have a peak intensity of EF-3 with winds of 140 mph. The damage survey will continue over the next several days, the service said.
Angelina County is around 120 miles north of Houston, and Franklin, a town of about 1,500, is about 110 miles northwest of Houston. Meteorologist John Moore said a possible twister touched down Saturday in the Vicksburg, Mississippi, area, the Associated Press reported. No injuries were reported, but officials said several businesses and vehicles were damaged.
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