The number of deaths due to hurricanes in the US increased to nearly 300

At least 280 people died and hundreds were injured after typhoons in the southern US states yesterday.

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The media gave different figures about the situation of casualties by hurricanes in the United States.AP and The New York Times said at least 280 people in six states were dead, while Reuters said that number was up to 295. More than two-thirds of victims died in Alabama, where many cities were hit by storms. heavy devastation.

The governor of the state of Alabama, Robert Bentley, confirmed 195 people in the state were killed and the number of wounded could reach thousands. In Tuscaloosa alone, where storms have been hit in recent days in the state of Alabama, the number of injured people has risen to 600.

The number of people dying from hurricanes seems to exceed the imagination of the American people. In the whirlpools that pass through, people receive notifications about cyclones at least 24 minutes before they reach. But their power and scope are so great that many people die even though they have time to prepare.

Rescuers search for victims on a hill in the town of Concord, Alabama after a hurricane on April 28. Photo: AP.

' They are the strongest storms that people working in meteorology ever witnessed. If you are attacked by one of these storms, you can only survive if you hide in a solid room, the house is designed to avoid storms or underground tunnels' , meteorologist Greg Carbin of the Weather Forecasting Agency America states.

In the town of Concord on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama, Randy Guyton's family received a friend's phone call warning on April 28. Guyton and his relatives ran down to the garage in the basement. A few seconds later the cyclone encircled their house and destroyed it. Fragments fall into the garage.

" Luckily we got into the car, " Guyton said.

Harold Brooks, a weather forecaster for the Storm Forecast Center , said the storms over the past two days were several times stronger than a normal storm. Their width is several hundred meters, and the lowest speed is about 160 km / h. They move a few kilometers above the ground before dissolving.

' It is possible that the width of some tornadoes reaches nearly one kilometer. They moved tens of kilometers on the ground and reached speeds of more than 320 km / h , 'Brooks said.

This is the series of cyclones that have killed the most people since a storm over 13 states in the south and west of the United States in April 1974. That storm killed 315 people.