Powerful tornadoes tore through Alabama on Thursday, killing at least three people in the northeast and injuring dozens of others and destroying homes and other structures south of Birmingham.
Three deaths were confirmed in Ohatchee, Alabama, about 60 miles northeast of Birmingham, a spokeswoman for Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency said. Others remained missing.
In the northwest a Florence, Alabama, police officer was struck by lighting from the same storm system as he set up road barriers, the police department there said. The officer was “conscious and responsive” at North Alabama Medical Center, Florence police said on Twitter.
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