11 killed as tornado hits.A TORNADO has killed at least 10 people on the Texas-Mexico border. Two schools were destroyed and more than 20 homes damaged when the twister struck. Five of the dead were members of one family in a mobile home in Eagle Pass, Texas Eagle Pass is a city in Maverick County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,413 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Maverick CountyGR6. . One witness said: "It was a whole family and they were all together, like they were huddling." Two others died in Eagle Pass and three in Piedras Negras Piedras Negras, ancient city, Guatemala Piedras Negras (pyā`thräs nā`gräs) [Span.,=black stones], ruined city of the Classic era of the Maya, NW Petén, Guatemala, in the Usumacinta valley. , Mexico. Lightning was blamed for an eleventh death yesterday as the huge weather system ploughed through the US midwest and south. |
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