2 dead in Ala. as storms pound South, Midwest
This photograph, taken in Birmingham, Ala. in the early morning hours of Jan. 23, 2012, shows damage left by a tornado that swept through the area overnight.
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Posted: 01/23/2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Emergency officials say two people have died in the Birmingham, Ala., area as storms pounded the South and Midwest, prompting tornado warnings in a handful of states, and more than 100 people were injured.
Allen Kniphfer of the Jefferson County emergency management said early Monday the victims were found in two different areas of the county in central Alabama.
Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Randy Christian says a 16-year-old girl was killed in Clay, outside Birmingham, and an 82-year-old man died in the community of Oak Grove.
Searchers in the Birmingham area were going from house-to-house early Monday in an effort to rescue people trapped in their homes.
At least one of the areas affected by the storms, which were part of a system that stretched from the Great Lakes down to the Gulf of Mexico, was also hit by a line of killer storms that slammed the Southeast last April.
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