Rescue workers searched for survivors on Saturday after scores of tornadoes tore across the central United States, killing at least 27 people and wiping out whole communities.
Trucks and trees were tossed aside like playthings on Friday as deadly funnel clouds descended on five states.
The images were surreal: a school bus smashed through the wall of a house, trucks thrown into lakes, solid brick homes reduced to rubble and wooden ones smashed into kindling, mobile homes flipped like tin cans.
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The death toll in Indiana reached 13 late on Friday, officials said.
"Early reports indicate the heaviest damage is concentrated in southeastern Indiana including substantial damage in Henryville in Clark County, Marysville in Clark County, and Pekin and New Pekin in Washington County," the state Joint Information Center said in a statement.
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