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As the sun comes up here in Mayflower, AR, extensive damage is being revealed. Mostly EF-3 damage in this shot.
7:07 AM – 28 Apr 2014
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Winds ripped houses off their foundations and flipped cars on top of the rubble in the small town of Vilonia in central Arkansas’ Faulkner county, one of the worst-hit communities, television pictures showed.
Arkansas authorities said at least 10 people had died in Faulkner and six more across the state – the first reported fatalities of this year’s tornado season. Another person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma, said the sheriff’s department.
Searchers were continuing to dig through rubble in Vilonia and a spokesman for the County Sheriff’s office said there was a “mass casualty situation”.
“An entire neighborhood of 50 or so homes has been destroyed. Many homes are completely gone except the foundation … There is more devastation like this in other parts of Arkansas,” state congressman Tim Griffin told Reuters.