Officials have located all the
people reported missing in the wake of the deadliest single
tornado to strike the United States and all 134 victims have
been identified, Missouri's governor said.
The mile-wide May 22 twister reduced a third of the
Missouri town of Joplin to rubble, tearing apart homes,
businesses, a hospital and schools along a six-kilometre path
of destruction.
With phone services knocked out and families scattered
in search of a safe place to sleep, the governor asked the
state patrol to help sort through thousands of request for
help finding missing loved ones.
"Our troopers worked 24/7 to locate these individuals
and to bring relief to the families of the living, and closure
to the families of those who died," Governor Jay Nixon said
yesterday. AFP
