Texas-Mexico tornado death toll reaches 10

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Texas-Mexico tornado death toll reaches 10
By Jim Forsyth

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A tornado killed 10 people and injured more than 80 when it slammed into towns on Texas-Mexico border overnight, officials said on Wednesday.

Seven people were killed when the tornado passed through the small town of Eagle Pass, Texas, and three people died in Piedras Negras, Mexico, just across the border.

"Our hospital is just being overrun with people," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster said after a night of frantic searches for the dead and the injured.

Five of the Eagle Pass dead were in a single home, Foster said, and a neighbor said they were all members of the same family whose mobile home was picked up and thrown down by the storm.

Texas emergency management officials said about 250 people were in shelters after the storm, and state rescue officials in Mexico said the army was searching for survivors and victims.

"Hundreds of houses are damaged, 700 or 800 people are in shelters and we've begun looking for people that may be trapped in the rubble," spokesman Fernando Horta of Coahuila state Civil Protection said by telephone.

The central Catholic church in Piedras Negras was obliterated, Foster said. "There were two orphanages within proximity of that church. Our concern is for the young people who were in those orphanages."

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[cboy4]

1. That's awful. It seems like there's a tornado tearing up Texas

every other day.

[donsu]

2. climate change is so much fun

more newly poor in Texas