Officials: 7 Dead After Tornado Tore Through Central Iowa

Officials: 7 Dead After Tornado Tore Through Central Iowa
A tornado in Winterset, Iowa, on March 5, 2022, in a still from video. Courtesy of SCV/Trey Greenwood/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
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WINTERSET, Iowa—Seven people were killed, including two children, when several tornadoes swept through central Iowa, destroying homes, and knocking down trees and power lines in the state’s deadliest storm in more than a decade, authorities said.

Emergency management officials in Madison County said four were injured and six people were killed Saturday when one tornado touched down in the area southwest of Des Moines near the town of Winterset around 4:30 p.m. Among those killed were two children under the age of five and four adults.