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Kids drowned in school, MSNBC link added which says "at least 7". :(
Last edited Mon May 20, 2013, 11:13 PM - Edit history (3)
I was listening to the live feed at KFOR they said some of the fatalities are kids who drowned at school, pipes burst or something. Ah fuck. Time to get off the internet. fuck
http://kfor.com/on-air/live-streaming/
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/20/oklahoma-tornado-hearts-are-broken-as-parents-wait-for-word/
Back when the highest winds ever recorded–302 miles per hour–blew through Moore, Oklahoma in 1999, none of the 440 young students at Plaza Towers Elementary School had yet been born. The tornado which swept through the suburban Oklahoma City community on Monday killed at least 51 people, according to the Oklahoma medical examiner. Amy Elliott, the ME, said that at least 20 of the 51 fatalities are children. The overall death toll was likely to rise as they treat approximately 120 people, including some 70 children..
At least seven children drowned in the basement of the school, according to a Weather Channel reporter, and several remain unaccounted for. According to Oklahoma lieutenant governor Todd Lamb, rescue workers continue to search for up to two dozen missing children at the school.
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Kindergarten through third grade had been sheltered in the school, according to NBC affiliate KFOR, which also reported that when the tornado struck the school, some of those students were inside the school’s hallways. KFOR later reported that at least 24 of the students had been killed. Several children were pulled alive from the Plaza Towers Elementary rubble, and a sixth-grade teacher–who a KFOR reporter described as “nothing short of a hero”–told the station that she shielded several children with her own body, and all survived.
http://www.examiner.com/article/24-children-dead-found-drowned-beneath-school-devastated-by-tornado-reported
Latest reports have 24 students dead, as the school they attended crashed down around them in the tornado which devastated a large area in Oklahoma Monday afternoon, according to Fox News live on Monday, May 20, 2013. The early death toll is at 37 people, but this number is expected to rise. The children were reportedly found drowned beneath their school rubble.
According to MSNBC, the NBC affiliate station KFOR is on scene where the tornado caused the collapse of the school and they too are reporting there are 24 children dead in the town of Moore, who were in that school. Children from grades 4, 5 and 6 are all accounted for, but 24 children from the third grade are not, at the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma.
Fox News reports seven of the 24 children's bodies have been removed from the school debris, in this heartbreaking event. The children drown at the bottom of the school, which may explain why the children all died that were in that area of the school. How they drowned is not known, but Fox is reporting the 24 children, all third graders have drowned when their school crumbled in around them on Monday afternoon.
A mother and her infant were also found dead in the rubble that once was a store, not too far from the school. Regular citizens are acting as emergency rescuers in many areas because the roads are blocked, which is making it hard to impossible for the official rescue teams to get into the area.
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According to MSNBC, the NBC affiliate station KFOR is on scene where the tornado caused the collapse of the school and they too are reporting there are 24 children dead in the town of Moore, who were in that school. Children from grades 4, 5 and 6 are all accounted for, but 24 children from the third grade are not, at the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma.
Fox News reports seven of the 24 children's bodies have been removed from the school debris, in this heartbreaking event. The children drown at the bottom of the school, which may explain why the children all died that were in that area of the school. How they drowned is not known, but Fox is reporting the 24 children, all third graders have drowned when their school crumbled in around them on Monday afternoon.
A mother and her infant were also found dead in the rubble that once was a store, not too far from the school. Regular citizens are acting as emergency rescuers in many areas because the roads are blocked, which is making it hard to impossible for the official rescue teams to get into the area.
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Or so I read here and heard on a local OK news stream. They speculated at the time it was the reason for the switch from search and rescue, to recover was due to the flooding on the stream.
I didn't want this to become a reality, and still don't want to consider it.
It may be time for me to get off the internet as well tonight.
My thoughts are with the people of Moore and Oklahoma City.
