MONTEVIDEO: A deadly tornado tore through the small city of Dolores in southwestern Uruguay on Friday, killing four, and injuring 200.
The tornado swept through the city of 20,000, throwing cars and ripping up houses. Dozens of homes have been destroyed.
A spokesman from the president’s office, Juan Andres Roballo, said in a statement that two children were being transported to the capital for treatment for life-threatening injuries, the Latin American Herald Tribune reports.
Fire department spokeswoman Mariela Vivone said that two of the dead were killed by flying cars carried by high winds.
“There are businesses in the center of the city, completely destroyed,” Uruguayan senator Guillermo Besozzi said.”
Schools, churches destroyed. This is something never seen before. This is something out of the normal for our country.”
Difficulties with telephone and health services, as well as power outages have left the city overwhelmed and in chaos. -- Bernama