Tornado Toll Mounts Across Carolinas and Georgia
The region reports at least 15 dead and about 200 injured from multiple tornadoes across South Carolina North Carolina and Georgia. Rescue workers number in the hundreds as towns like Bennettsville Winnsboro Newberry Fountain Inn Camden and Red Springs endure extensive damage.
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Clemson Extension Service
Holmes
Bobby Mauney
Aiken County
Chapel of Our Lady of the Peace
Old Edgefield Road
North Augusta
Mauney
Northwood
Bennettsville
Jerry Raley
Marlboro County
Carolinas
National Guard
North Carolina
South Carolina
Winnsboro
Newberry
Fountain Inn
Camden
National Weather Service
Georgia
Chesapeake
Twisters leave trail of deaths and damage across Carolinas
A Columbia AP chronology details deadly tornadoes that struck northern South Carolina leaving at least three dead and over 100 injured. Newberry and Bennettsville report multiple fatalities and extensive destruction as authorities deploy National Guard and emergency shelters.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Ateast
State Adjutant General's Office
Pennsylvania
New York State
New Jersey
New England
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Ross Miller
State Emergency Preparedness Agency
Richard W
Dick) Riley
National Guard
Newberry
Bennettsville
Mount Olive
N.C
Barbara Alston
Police Department
Florida
Suwannee
Hamilton
Georgia
Alabama
Attalla
David Dixon
U.S. 11
Kershaw County
Tornado Wrecks North Carolina Shopping Center in Wallace
In Wallace, North Carolina, a violent tornado demolished the Northwood Shopping Center and damaged three apartments and about 200 homes. Seven people were killed and dozens injured across the area, with rescuers pulling survivors from the rubble as power lines and wreckage lay everywhere.
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Bennettsville
Tommy Klinkscales
Wallace
Northwood
Klinkscales
Charles Deaver
South Carolina
North Carolina
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