US storm death near 200

Tornadoes and storms in the south-eastern United States have killed at least 193 people, officials say.
In Alabama, the worst-hit state, 128 have died in recent days – including 15 killed by a tornado that devastated the city of Tuscaloosa.
Deaths are also reported in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia.
Tornadoes and storms that have been battering the southern US killed at least 128 people on Wednesday in Alabama alone, state officials say.
The US National Weather Service has preliminary reports of nearly 300 tornadoes since the storm began on Friday, including more than 130 on Wednesday alone.
One meteorologist described the tornado that devastated Tuscaloosa as possibly the “worst in Alabama’s history”.
The city – home to more than 83,000 residents, and to the University of Alabama – was hit by the huge tornado in the early evening on Wednesday.
“Everybody says it [a tornado] sounds like a train and I started to hear the train,” Tuscaloosa resident Anthony Foote told Reuters news agency.
“I ran and jumped into the tub and the house started shaking. Then glass started shattering.”
By nightfall, the city was dark, with roads impassable, businesses unrecognisable, sirens wailing off and on, and debris littering the streets and pavements, the Associated Press reports.
The city’s hospital said its emergency room had admitted about 100 people, but treated four times that number.
Mayor Walter Maddox told reporters the city faced “massive damage on a scale we have not seen in Tuscaloosa in quite some time”, and said he expected the death toll to rise.—BBC