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Tornado kills 13 in Mexico border city; 12 missing in Texas

AKIPRESS.COM - A tornado raged through a city on the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, killing at least 13 people. authorities said.

12 people were reported missing in Texas in flash flooding from a line of storms that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, reports WT.

The baby was also missing after the twister that hit Ciudad Acuna, a city of 125,000 across from Del Rio, Texas, sent its infant carrier flying. Rescue workers began digging through the rubble of damaged homes in a race to find victims.

The twister hit a seven-block area, which Victor Zamora, interior secretary of the northern state of Coahuila, described as “devastated.”

Three hundred people were being treated for injuries at local hospitals, and 400 houses were fully or partially destroyed, said Edgar Gonzalez, spokesman for the city government.

“There’s nothing standing, not walls, not roofs,” Gonzalez said, describing some of the destroyed homes in a 3-square kilometer (1 square mile) stretch.

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