Powerful Tornado Hits Nashville, Leaving at Least 19 Dead Across Tennessee

At any rate, 19 people were killed in Tennessee early Tuesday, remembering two for Nashville, when ground-breaking tornadoes tore through the state, authorities said.

“It is terrible,” Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee said at a morning news meeting. “We have had lost life the whole way across the state.”

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said 19 people had been killed across the state, The Associated Press reported. The Metro Nashville Police Department composed on Twitter that the two exploited people in the city were from East Nashville, and passings were additionally reported in Putnam, Wilson, Davidson and Benton Counties.

The Nashville Fire Department Wrote on Twitter that it was reacting to reports of in any event 40 crumbled structures around the city. Photographs and recordings shared via web-based networking media indicated dividers launched structures, sheet metal folded over a shaft, and trees and electrical lines broken across streets.

The Metro Nashville Police Department said, in any event, two people were killed in East Nashville, while a TEMA official disclosed to Fox News that 14 people passed on in Putnam County. There were two reported passings in Wilson County, two in Davidson County which incorporates that territory of East Nashville, and one in Benton County, as indicated by TEMA.

Metro Nashville cops and fire teams were reacting to around 48 structure crumples around the city as neighborhoods were covered with blown-down dividers and rooftops, snapped electrical cables and enormous broken trees. Search and salvage groups were fanning through neighborhoods looking for any harmed people inside crumbled structures.