JACKSON, Miss.—Strong storms pounded the Deep South on Sunday, killing at least seven people in south Mississippi and damaging up to 300 homes and other buildings in northern Louisiana. Another person is reported to have died in Arkansas.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency director Greg Michel said one person killed was in Walthall County, two were killed in Lawrence County and three were killed in Jefferson Davis County. All three counties are more than an hour’s drive south of Jackson, near the Louisiana state line.
