Storm Kills Six

Last night and this morning, storms and tornadoes roared across Arkansas, leaving behind wreckage and at least six deaths. The Associated News reports:

“In northwest Arkansas, a 15-year-old girl was killed early Friday when a tree fell on her home in Siloam Springs, police said. A 10-year-old boy in the home was taken to a hospital. Police said he was not seriously injured.

Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokesman Tommy Jackson also confirmed two deaths in Conway County and three deaths in Van Buren County, north of Little Rock in the central part of the state. The Conway County victims were a father and son in a mobile home, the sheriff’s office said.”