{"id":34771,"date":"2013-05-20T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/deadly-tornadoes-strike-central-us\/34771\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T16:28:08","slug":"deadly-tornadoes-strike-central-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/deadly-tornadoes-strike-central-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly tornadoes strike central US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of powerful tornadoes have swept through the central US states, killing at least two people and injuring several others.\n<\/p>\n<p>A massive storm front including at least 19 tornadoes rampaged through the US states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, killing 79-year-old Glen Irish and 76-year-old Billy Hutchinson, while injuring at least 21 others, police said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The two men were found dead in the city of Shawnee near Oklahoma City, where a half-mile wide tornado razed a mobile home park.\n<\/p>\n<p>In other areas, trees were shredded and homes destroyed with power lines strewn across roadways.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c5\u201cYou can see where there&#8217;s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up\u2026. It looks like there\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s been heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour&#8230;. It&#8217;s pretty bad. It&#8217;s pretty much wiped out,\u201d said Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency for 16 counties.<\/p>\n<p>The storm started in the US state of Texas and moved along to Minnesota, with experts predicting more storms for Monday.\n<\/p>\n<p>On May 15, an EF-4 tornado struck the US state of Texas, killing several people and injuring more than 100 residents.\n<\/p>\n<p>GMA\/SS<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/05\/20\/304505\/deadly-tornadoes-strike-central-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Deadly tornadoes strike central US\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of powerful tornadoes have swept through the central US states, killing at least two people and injuring several others. A massive storm front including at least 19 tornadoes rampaged through the US states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, killing 79-year-old Glen Irish and 76-year-old Billy Hutchinson, while injuring at least 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}