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强风暴袭击美国中南部 12人死亡

At least 12 people have been killed by tornadoes as a huge storm system swept across the central and southern United States.

一场强大的暴风系统横扫美国中南部地区,引发的龙卷风造成至少12人死亡。

The immediate aftermath of the tornado in Mayflower, near Little Rock, Arkansas, was caught on camera

Eleven of the victims were in several suburbs of Little Rock in Arkansas, a state official said.

One other person was killed in the town of Quapaw in the north-east of Oklahoma where officials said many buildings were badly damaged.

Tornadoes also struck in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri.

Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, said eleven people had been killed in several suburbs west and north of Little Rock - five in Faulkner County, five in Pulaski County and one in White County.

Congressman Tim Griffin told Reuters news agency an "entire neighbourhood of 50 homes or so" in Faulkner County had been destroyed, with many "completely gone except the foundation".

First reports from Oklahoma said two people had died in Quapaw but officials later revised the figure down to one. Another six people were injured.

Quapaw, which has a population of about 900, was badly hit by the tornado, Ottawa County Emergency Management director Joe Dan Morgan said.

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