Alabama authorities say a woman has been killed after strong storms knocked down a tree onto her mobile home in St Clair County.
The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Office tells WVTM that a tree fell on a home on U.S. Highway 231 in Pell City just before 8 p.m. Thursday. Emergency crews responded and found the woman dead inside. The woman has been identified as 42-year-old Monica Clements.
Authorities said Clements’ 10-year-old son suffered minor injuries.
Sheriff Billy Murray said in a news release that the “Sheriff’s Office is deeply saddened by this tragic accident and our thoughts and prayers are with the family during this difficult time.”
A second man has been reported dead in Mississippi due to a storm system moving across the South.
WLBT-TV reports that 24-year-old Kenderick Magee was killed Thursday while driving in the storm.
Amite County Coroner Campbell Sharp says Magee’s car crashed near the rural town of Gillsburg in southwest Mississippi, killing Magee.
Neshoba County Coroner John Stephens tells local media that a driver was killed Thursday afternoon when his car hit a downed tree on a highway south of Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Officials have not released that driver’s name.
(Associated Press, copyright 2018)
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