CORRECTED: Tornadoes kill 11; school collapses
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(Updates death toll in lead paragraph and adds Georgia, paragraphs 6-9)
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Eight people are killed as a tornado hits an Alabama school, with a huge storm system threatening much of the US.
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Dozens of tornadoes sliced across southern US states, ripping apart homes and shopping malls, killing at least 52 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said Wednesday.
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State-by-state look at deaths and damage caused by a string of tornadoes that tore across the South:
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One person was killed and at least 19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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A 7-year-old girl shot by a milk truck driver at an Amish schoolhouse died early today, raising the death toll in the attack to six. Pennsylvania state troopers confirmed the deaths of five girls and the shooter, who took over the school, lined up girls at the blackboard, tied them up and shot them.
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Hurricane Charley left the gym and cafeteria at Poinciana High School roofless, with insulation and metal strips twisting in the wind. It took out a few portable classrooms and damaged several school buses.
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By MARCUS KABEL ENTERPRISE, Ala. - An apparent tornado struck a high school Thursday, trapping students under rubble and killing at least thirteen people, emergency officials said.
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The bad news: more tornadoes were reported in Kansas and the nation last year than at any time since records have been kept.
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A series of tornadoes has struck communities across England, damaging homes and vehicles and uprooting trees. British weather authorities confirmed that a squall hit Northampton, where falling branches damaged an empty school bus, and another violent storm damaged gardens and homes in Luton. Part of a factory roof was blown off in Breaston, Derbyshire. Also affected were Farnborough, Hants, and Nuneaton, Warks. There have been no immediate reports of injuries.
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Tornadoes and hail struck several towns in southern Minnesota, killing one man, damaging cars and ripping roofs off at least a dozen homes. The man who died was trapped in a house near Kasota when a tornado hit Thursday, said Tom Doherty, chief sheriff's deputy in Le Sueur County.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  - Tornadoes ripped across the Southern and Midwestern United States on Thursday and killed at least eight people, most of whom had been taking shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama.
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Tornadoes across the southern United States killed at least 20 people as they tore up a hospital and high school where students huddled for shelter, authorities said on Friday, a day after the rampage.
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Evacuees find shelter in schools, stadiumMarines evacuating Camp PendletonFierce winds fuel fires; 360,000 acres burnFEMA vows action; Bush visiting Thursday
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(Corrects number of homes threatened to 68,000, from 6,800, 5th paragraph)
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AN EXPLOSION ripped through a school in south-eastern Afghanistan, killing nine children and one adult . An Afghan official insisted the blast on Saturday evening in Paktia province was caused by a bomb,but this has not been confirmed by the military.
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(Corrects dates: in paragraphs 4, 9 and 16 ...Sept... instead of ...Aug... and in paragraph 7...Sept. 8 to 9...instead of...Aug. 2 to 3.).