Mississippi tornado: Biden declares emergency after storm kills 26 in region
by Oliver Laughland in New Orleans from US news | The Guardian on (#6A6EB)
Search and recovery efforts continue after twister hit hardest in some of the most economically deprived areas of US's poorest state
Joe Biden declared a federal emergency for swathes of Mississippi hit by a devastating tornado, as rescue workers continued to search for survivors on Sunday morning with a death toll of at least 26 people caused by catastrophic storms in parts of the US's deep south.
Twenty-five people were killed and dozens injured in Mississippi, throughout the state's low-lying Delta region and around its north-east portion, with another man dying in the neighboring state of Alabama.
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