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		</div><p>Tornados have swept through Texas leaving substantial damage and at least seven people dead, in the latest in a succession of freakish winter weather events across the US.</p>
<p>Tumultuous weather in the south-east left 18 people dead over the Christmas holiday period.</p>
<p>National Weather Service Meteorologist Anthony Bain in Fort Worth said several tornadoes touched down in the Dallas area, and the full extent of damage was not yet known.</p>
<p>Local TV showed homes with roofs blown away, vehicles mangled or turned upside down, a severely damaged church, fallen trees and debris strewn across neighbourhoods.</p>
<p>The damage stretched over a 40-mile area from south of Dallas to north-east of the city.</p>
<p>Joe Harn, police spokesman for Garland, about 20 miles north-east of Dallas, said four people were killed in vehicle accidents during the massive storm, but it was unclear if they were all in the same vehicle.</p>
<p>“I do know that they are going house to house and going through the apartments looking for people,” he said.</p>
<p>Three more people were confirmed dead from the storms in Collin County, about 45 miles north-east of Dallas.</p>
<p>Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Havey gave no other details of the deaths.</p>
<p>In the town of Rowlett near Garland, police spokesman Detective Cruz Hernandez said several people were injured although the exact number was not immediately clear.</p>
<p>Two families were barricaded in their homes and first responders were trying to get them out.</p>
<p>The twisters – accompanied by torrential rain, wind and some hail – were part of a weather system that could produce major flooding from north Texas through eastern Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, western Arkansas and parts of Missouri.</p>
<p>Passengers waiting for flights at Love Field, a major Dallas airport, were moved away from windows during the storm. Flights were temporarily halted from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.</p>
<p>On the other side of Texas, a snowstorm accompanied by plunging temperatures was expected to leave up to 16ins of snow in West Texas and much of New Mexico.</p>
<p>NWS meteorologist Brendon Rubin-Oster warned: “It’s going to be quite dangerous for anyone exposed to these elements.”</p>
<p>In the south-east, two more deaths linked to weather were reported on Saturday in Mississippi, bringing the state&#8217;s death toll from severe weather over Christmas to 10. Late on Saturday, one death was reported in Alabama.</p>
<p>Flash flooding closed roads across Alabama and trapped motorists in rapidly rising waters.</p>
<p>Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said 56 injuries were reported, and preliminary damage estimates show 241 homes were destroyed or severely damaged.</p>
<p>The flooding is the result of heavy downpours that have thrashed the south-eastern US since Wednesday, bringing record rainfalls in some areas.</p>
<p>Four inches of rain walloped the city of Mobile, Alabama, on Wednesday &#8211; smashing the previous record of 2.2ins set in 1990.</p>
<p>Six people were killed in Tennessee, including three who were found in a car submerged in a creek, according to the Columbia Police Department.</p>
<p>One person died in Arkansas, and dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed.</p>
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