[NYPOST] At least 26 people were killed and dozens of others injured after powerful tornadoes ripped through the Mississippi Delta on Friday night, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, which released some of the figures, said late Saturday that multiple local and state search and rescue teams were still combing through rubble across the state to determine if there were any more victims.
Thirteen victims were confirmed dead in Sharkey County after the town of Rolling Fork — about 60 miles north of Jackson — appeared to take the worst hit, coroner Angelia Easton confirmed to CNN.
“What we found was devastation all around us,” Mayor Eldridge Walker said.
At least one person was killed in Silver City in neighboring Humphreys County, the local sheriff’s office told WJTV.
And in Yazoo County, two children were taken to Baptist Yazoo hospital in critical condition after becoming trapped in a home.
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