10 Die As Storms Hit Texas-Mexico Border

“Of course, some also may be staying with relatives. It's just a very, very catastrophic event that has come into this community.”

Search teams worked their way through wreckage-strewn neighborhoods in this border town Wednesday after a tornado killed at least 10 people and destroyed two schools and more than 20 homes.

At least of three of the victims died just across the border from Eagle Pass in Piedras Negras, Mexico, said Oscar Murillo, the city's civil protection director.

On the U.S. side, five of the dead were in a mobile home when the storm slammed it against a school building, said Maverick County Judge Jose Aranda. A young girl between 4 and 6 years old, her parents, and two other adult relatives were inside, he said. Read more

[Bluesky]

Wow.

That is truly a shame.

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These are hard working people who are trying to make a life in an area that is very poor.
This is truly a disaster of the human spirit.