EF5 Rated Tornado Strikes Joplin, MO, Causing Mass Destruction

Weather officials said the twister that struck the city of 50,000 at dinner time Sunday was the deadliest single tornado in the United States since 1947 and the ninth-deadliest tornado of all time.

Authorities on Monday put the casualty toll at 116 dead and some 400 people hurt, many suffering severe internal injuries.

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