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156 Missing After Tornado in Joplin, Missouri

   VOA News  May 27, 2011
   Chanell Gonzalez looks through her grandfather's yearbook which she
   found in his destroyed home in Joplin, Missouri, May 26, 2011

Photo: Reuters

   Chanell Gonzalez looks through her grandfather's yearbook which she
   found in his destroyed home in Joplin, Missouri, May 26, 2011

   Officials in the central U.S. state of Missouri say 156 people are
   still missing, days after a tornado cut through the city of Joplin,
   leaving a path of death and destruction.
   Authorities in Joplin say 90 people from the original missing persons
   list, which totaled 232, have been found alive, while 22 others were
   added to the list as missing. Officials say six people on the missing
   list were found among the dead, while two of the names were duplicates.
   The death toll so far from Sunday's violent weather is 126.
   The tornado tore apart homes, crushed cars and snapped trees. It was
   the deadliest single tornado in the United States in more than six
   decades.
   U.S. President Barack Obama is to travel to Joplin on Sunday. He has
   pledged the federal government will help victims recover and rebuild.
   Elsewhere, emergency officials have reported at least 14 deaths in the
   states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, which were hit by tornadoes
   Tuesday and Wednesday.
   Last month, more than 300 people were killed in twisters in the
   southern United States.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.

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