Students trapped after tornado hits two schools near Oklahoma City

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'Confirmed casualties' at Oklahoma school flattened by tornado, fire chief says
UPDATE KROR.COM 4 NEWS said they are now in search and recovery at the school.

About 2 dozen children are believed to remain in the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School.

Reporters have also been talking about average people showing up to do whatever they can to help.
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'Major damage' as huge tornado rips through neighborhoods south of Oklahoma City
By Erin McClam
Staff Writer
NBC News

A monster two-mile-wide tornado ripped through southern Oklahoma City and the suburb of Moore on Monday afternoon, leaving homes and schools in ruins and fires burning out of control.

There was no immediate word on casualties, but aerial footage showed major destruction: flattened homes, cars flipped over and crushed, residents milling around in shock or combing through debris.

At one wrecked school, search crews were trying to account for students in kindergarten through third grade, NBC station KFOR reported.

“I lost everything,” a shirtless man told a reporter as he walked in a daze through the ruins of a horse farm that was obliterated. “We might have one horse left out of all of them.”

Two elementary schools — Briarwood Elementary in Oklahoma City and Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore — were heavily damaged, KFOR reported.

A teacher told a KFOR reporter that she lay on top of six kids in a bathroom as the tornado touched down to protect them.
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