Crews continue to sift through Deep South tornado wreckage

Search and recovery crews resumed the daunting task of digging through the debris of flattened and battered buildings on Sunday after at least 25 people were killed, dozens of others injured and hundreds displaced by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta (The Clarion-Ledger/AP)

Search and recovery crews resumed the daunting task of digging through the debris of flattened and battered buildings on Sunday after at least 25 people were killed, dozens of others injured and hundreds displaced by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta.

The massive storm left a trail of devastation in one of the poorest regions of the US as it ripped through several towns on its hour-long path on Friday night.