Rescue crews recovered the body of an eight-year-old as the U.S. struggled to come to terms with the devastation wreaked by three days of violent storms across the southern states which killed at least 45 people. Lacy Elizabeth Taylor was swept from a bridge she was crossing with two companions in Waynesboro, Virginia, and her corpse found than a half mile away.
She is the latest victim of the reported 241 tornadoes which have destroyed hundreds of buildings, blocked roads and took down power lines.
One companion, a nine-year-old boy, was rescued by a passer-by, but the other, Tina Marie Allen, 41, drowned after being swept away by the floodwaters.
Six people are so far reported to have died in Virginia as a result of the storms as flash floods and hailstones the size of grapefruit added to the devastation.
North Carolina accounted for the bulk of casualties and property losses, with 22 people killed and more than 80 others injured in a string of tornadoes that ripped through the state Saturday night.
Houses were flattened, cars and trucks tossed like matchsticks and planes blown off the tarmac at a local airport. Some 62 twisters were reported which uprooted trees, poles and snapped power lines, cutting electricity to more than 200,000 people in the state. Read More
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