Mayfield, United States | AFP | At least 80 people died in the state of Kentucky alone as a result of tornadoes that ravaged the central and southern United States, Gov. Andy Beshear said Sunday.
“This number will exceed a hundred,” he said on CNN, calling the current series of tornadoes “the deadliest” in Kentucky history.
The total death toll in the United States from storms on Friday night and early Saturday is at least 93.
Kentucky was swept over 200 miles by one of the longest tornadoes on record in the United States.
In Mayfield, a town of 10,000 partially devastated by the disaster, a candle factory was at the center of relief efforts after its roof gave way to violent winds.
About 110 employees were working there Friday night before the year-end holidays, and about “40 of them were rescued,” Beshear said, without specifying the number of employees who made it out on their own.
“I’m not sure we’ll see another rescue,” he said, however, hoping for “an incredible miracle.”
