Deadly tornado 'picked up homes and turned them over on top of each other'

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Two people died and more than 40 others were injured after a tornado ripped through a US mobile home park. The tornado struck Gaylord, a town of about 4,200 people, roughly 230 miles northwest of Detroit in Michigan on Friday.

In a region where tornadoes are rare, the National Weather Service said there had been winds of up to 140mph.

Fire chief Chris Martin said homes had been "picked up and turned over on top of each other", leaving "just a very large debris field".

He added: "Crews are in there right now doing a secondary search with heavy equipment.

"There is probably 95% destruction in there."

Initially police had reported one person had died but they have now confirmed a second person, who was in their 70s, had also died.

The person, who was in their 70s, lived in the Nottingham mobile home park, which was among the first site...

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