Crews Search Rubble After 6 Die at Illinois Amazon Facility

Crews Search Rubble After 6 Die at Illinois Amazon Facility
Crews use an excavator to pull down pieces of a damaged roof during search and rescue operations at the Amazon distribution center in Eadwardsville, Ill., on Dec. 11, 2021. Daniel Shular/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP
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CHICAGO—Search efforts at an Amazon facility in Illinois where at least six people were killed in a tornado were expected to take several days, but authorities said they did not expect to find additional survivors.

The company has not said how many people were in the building not far from St. Louis when the tornado hit at 8:35 p.m. Friday—part of a swarm of twisters across the Midwest and the South that leveled entire communities. Authorities said they didn’t have a full count of employees because it was during a shift change and there were several part-time employees.