A tornado killed 7 children on a single KY street

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — When a tornado touched down successful Bowling Green, Kentucky, successful the mediate of the night, its unit was centered connected 1 affable subdivision.

It's a spot wherever everyone waved astatine 1 another, and giggling children spent afternoons tooling astir connected bicycles connected the sidewalks.

Fourteen radical died successful a fewer blocks. Eleven of them were from a azygous street, Moss Creek Avenue. Entire families were mislaid — among them were 7 children, 2 of whom were infants.

All astir the vicinity amid the ruins is grounds of the kids they utilized to ticker ascent disconnected the schoolhouse autobus — a reddish wagon connected apical of a rubble pile, a mangled bluish bicycle, a babe doll.

Neighbors who survived are truthful stricken with grief they conflict to talk of it.

Melinda Allen-Ray told The Associated Press she volition ne'er hide the screams from her neighbors successful the aftermath of the storms.

"I heard them — it traumatized me. I deliberation astir that each nighttime erstwhile I spell to sleep, erstwhile I bash sleep," she said.

Ganimete Ademi told the AP that the vicinity is simply a divers assemblage of families astir the world. She herself fled the warfare successful Kosovo successful 1999.

"We travel from war; this reminds us, it touches the representation of that, wherever we've been and however we came here," she said. "I crook my representation backmost to 22 years ago."

At slightest 88 radical successful 5 states were killed successful the tornado lawsuit precocious past week. On Tuesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said 74 of those fatalities occurred successful his authorities and that much than 100 radical are inactive missing.