52 dead as storms rip across America's south

Crews searched today for more victims of deadly tornadoes that killed at least 52 people and injured hundreds more as they tore across four US states, ripping off a shopping mall roof, demolishing mobile homes and blowing apart warehouses.

The victims included 28 people in Tennessee, 13 in Arkansas, seven in Kentucky and four in Alabama, emergency officials said. Among those killed were parents who died with their 11-year-old child in Atkins, Arkansas, about 60 miles north-west of Little Rock.