Three killed in US tornado

Damaged vehicles sit among debris after a deadly tornado tore through Brunswick County, North Carolina (Emily Flax/Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

A tornado has ripped through part of North Carolina in the US, killing at least three people and injuring 10 others in its trail of destruction, authorities said.

The tornado hit just after midnight local time on Tuesday in Brunswick County, near Grissettown in the Ocean Ridge Plantation Community, destroying homes, downing power lines that left thousands without electricity and snapping trees in half, news outlets reported.