At least 12 people have been killed in a series of tornadoes in the south-central United States.. Rescue workers searched through the night among the rubble for survivors.<br /><br />Eight of the victims said, one official were in the town of Little Rock in Arkansas<br /><br />One person was killed in Quapaw in Oklahoma where half the town of 900 people was badly damaged.<br /><br />The states of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri were also caught in the path of the twisters along with Arkansas and Oklahoma with one leaving a 65 kilometre trail of destruction.<br /><br />One witness reported a tornado almost one kilometre wide crossing a major motorway.<br /><br />Entire neighbourhoods were, according to authorities wiped out with power lines down, trees ripped up and roads blocked making rescue efforts hazardous.<br /><br />Over the weekend storms also struck the eastern part of the US killing a child in North Carolina.
