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Baby among at least five killed after tornadoes rip through central US

Source: via REUTERS

At least five people including a four-month-old baby have been killed after tornadoes ripped through central US states.

A state of emergency has been declared in a dozen Oklahoma counties, where four of the deaths including the baby’s took place in the town of Holdenville.

The fifth was reported on Sunday in Iowa, where officials in Pottawattamie County said a man critically injured during a tornado had died.

Punishing storms that began late on Saturday in Oklahoma injured at

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