NEW ORLEANS, Dec 16 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — At least three people have died and more than a dozen were left injured across Louisiana over the past 24 hours as severe weather system moved across the South carving a path of destruction.
A 56-year-old woman “died after a tornado destroyed her home” in Killona, about 30 miles west of New Orleans, according to a tweet from the Louisiana Department of Health. The identity of the woman was not immediately released, officials in St. Charles Parish said.
More than 300 miles north, a boy and his mother were found dead after a tornado destroyed their home in the northwestern Louisiana community of Keithville, the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office said. The boy’s body was located about a half-mile from the home, Sheriff Steve Prator said.
The mother was found dead about a street over from where the house had been, and two other people in the community were injured, the sheriff’s office said.
Across the rest of the state, debris where homes once stood and cars flipped upside down were seen in devastated communities where numerous residents said they hid in their bathtubs in fear as they rode out the storm.
Along with severe weather, a moderate risk of excessive rainfall that could lead to flash flooding exists for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and west-central Alabama, the Storm Prediction Center says.
