Friday’s tornadoes showed no mercy to the very young.
Several children are among the approximately dozen people that were killed in the city of Bowling Green, Ky., as a result of tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky and nearby states, according to a county coroner.
A four-month old was killed about 50 miles from Bowling Green in Bremen, Ky.
All of the children that were killed in Bowling Green “were in residential homes, in residential apartments,” Warren County Coroner Kevin Kirby said Sunday afternoon in a telephone interview. Mr. Kirby declined to say precisely how many children were among the dozen killed in the county, but said the victims represented “a broad spectrum of ages.”
Bowling Green is about 66 miles north of Nashville. Eleven of the victims lived in what Mr. Kirby referred to as the Creekwood subdivision inside Bowling Green. One victim, an adult, was found “out in the county,” he said.
Referring to the victims, Mr. Kirby said they were all “weather related deaths” and all suffered “traumatic injuries.”
Mr. Kirby, who has been the county coroner for more than three decades, said his office hopes to finalize the identification of victims by Monday afternoon. Those efforts have been slowed, he said, in part because some family members who might be able to make
identifications are themselves being treated for their own injuries suffered during the tornado.
“There’s a lot of people injured and in hospitals,” Mr. Kirby said. “It’s just sad to lose anyone but it’s really sad to lose a child,” he said before adding: “It’s not supposed to be that way.”
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