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jakeXT

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9. Maybe it was a mix of water and dirt
Sat May 25, 2013, 05:08 AM
May 2013
Seven children in the building didn't make it out, according to the Oklahoma Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Six died of suffocation, trapped under the rubble, according to the office. A seventh, 8-year-old Kyle Davis, was killed by a stone or beam that fell on his neck.

Nichols said she was perplexed by early reports that students drowned in a basement because Plaza Towers doesn't have any. But water was pouring in from a main break into the collapsed building Ethan had been in, she said

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/05/23/tornado-plaza-towers-oklahoma/2354117/

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