Tornadoes Leave Six Dead in Texas
May 16, 2013
Rescue workers are searching for survivors in a destroyed subdivision in Granbury, Texas, which was mowed down in the night by a mile-wide tornado. At least 6 people people are known to be dead and 37 others injured. A tornado flattened at least 50 houses in another subdivision a few miles southeast of Granbury. Granbury is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.
The U.S. National Weather Service has confirmed that as many as 10 tornadoes swept through towns south of Fort Worth during the night.
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