Six dead, including three-year-old girl, and dozens injured after 25 ferocious tornadoes rip through southern states - 18th Nov 2011

Six dead, including three-year-old girl, and dozens injured after 25 ferocious tornadoes rip through southern states - 18th Nov 2011

Six people have been killed, including a three-year-old girl, and dozens injured after 25 tornadoes tore across the Southeast.

In North Carolina, the toddler was found buried under a pile of shattered furniture along with her 50-year-old grandmother. Their small house in a rural area of Lexington had been ripped clean from its foundations.

The storms left at trail of debris that stretched for at least seven miles, with a dozen people taken to hospital.

Firefighters and volunteers in Lexington searched for the child, whose name wasn't immediately released, for more than two hours. Read More