Rare tornado kills 98 in China

[Meatpie]

Photos from the area show major damage to buildings and infrastructure with big trees debarked.

At least 98 people were killed and 800 more were injured after a tornado -- accompanied by hailstorms, thunderstorms and lightning -- hit eastern China early Thursday afternoon, the government said.

The extreme weather, packed with winds up to 125 kilometers per hour, destroyed homes and factories and tossed cars into the air in parts of Yancheng City in China's Jiangsu Province, according to a statement posted online by the local authorities.


"When the tornado hit, the winwas howling and the sky turned as dark as night," a local villager told reporters on Friday. "Almost all the houses here have collapsed."

 

[StrokMcToke]

Damn, almost spiritual I would say. Such a combination of pure natural destruction consecutively. That's like the wrath of an angered God.