2 dead, 5 injured after tornado hits Arkansas nursing home

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A tornado has reportedly ripped done a nursing home, sidesplitting 2 radical and injuring 5 others successful Arkansas.

Craighead County Judge Marvin Day told KAIT-TV that astatine slightest 20 radical were trapped aft the tornado struck the Monette Manor area.

The TV presumption reported that exigency crews from Trumann, and constabulary and firefighters from Jonesboro were headed to the country to assist.

The nursing location has astir 90 beds.

Officials told KARK, the NBC affiliate successful Little Rock, that the extortion of the nursing location collapsed and different buildings successful the municipality suffered damage.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Sen. Tom Cotton addressed the unsafe upwind connected Twitter. They were encouraging those successful the country to enactment vigilant.

According to CNN, a beardown upwind signifier is moving done the area, which is resulting successful nighttime tornadoes.

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