The death toll from Joplin’s EF5 tornado has risen to 138 this afternoon. say by : the state Department of Public Safety announced the increase from 134 to 138 on Thursday after confirming that four more people died in hospitals of injuries suffered in deadliest single U.S. tornado since 1950.
More than 8,000 homes and apartments, and more than 500 commercial properties, were damaged or destroyed when the twister ripped through more than six miles of the southwest Missouri town.
Four more people, who had been injured in the storm, were confirmed dead at area hospitals since yesterday, according to a release from the Department of Public Safety.
The tornado that destroyed 30 percent of Joplin injured more than 900 people. Authorities have not said how many people are still recovering in area hospitals.
CHICAGO World Hot News— The United States is experiencing its deadliest year for tornadoes since 1936 and the fifth worst year on record, officials said Thursday.
With the tornado season far from over, the 2011 toll rose to 523 Thursday.
The mile-wide May 22 twister reduced a third of the Missouri town of Joplin to rubble, tearing apart homes, businesses, a hospital, churches and schools along a four-mile (six-kilometer) path of destruction.
It came after a horrific outbreak left 361 dead in several US states in April.
At least four people were killed Wednesday when a rare twister outbreak struck Massachusetts.
The deadliest year on record is 1925, when tornadoes killed 794 people in the United States, followed by 552 deaths in 1936, 551 deaths in 1917, 540 in 1927 and 537 in 1986, according to the National Weather Service.
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