In the dark, with the tornado still close by, Kyanna Parsons-Perez broadcast live on Facebook the hell that the Mayfield candle factory in Kentucky had become, after the whirlwind caught her working there along with 109 other colleagues .
“My foot is stuck and I’m trapped under a wall“said this survivor from the factory, which was devastated.”Someone come and help us“, he pleaded.
Kyanna was convinced that she was going to die, as she has recounted on American television: “It was absolutely the scariest thing i have ever experienced on my vinea “, he assured, in statements to ‘LEX 18 News’.
For their part, Jackie and Doug Koon can hardly believe they and their children are alive: they took refuge in the bathroom before the storm hit and they left their two month old baby tied up in the car seat, thinking that this way she would be more protected.
“We put my two boys in the bathtub with pillows on top, “he told the ‘MSNBC’. However, the force of the tornado took them out of the house, thrown into the air. The two children were injured and believe that the baby may have suffered a stroke.
In a matter of minutes, a succession of tornadoes took the lives of at least 64 people aheadAccording to the latest balance offered by the state governor, who nevertheless pointed out that the number of fatalities could still increase.
As indicated this Monday, in statements collected by the Reuters agency, the age of the victims ranges between five months and 86 years and there are more than a hundred missing.
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