A powerful tornado tore through a city in Uruguay yesterday, ripping up houses, hurling cars into the air and killing at least four people.
Seven other people were injured as the city of Dolores was declared an emergency zone. Many of the city's 20,000 population have been left homeless and struggling to cope with the damage.
'The president has ordered the deployment of all the resources in the state to attend to the situation in Dolores,' said Juan Andres Roballo, an official with the Uruguayan president's office.
Devastating: Several people try to comfort one distressed woman after the city was badly hit by a tornado
Tragic: Locals try to clear up debris from inside a badly damaged supermarket in Dolores just hours after the city was damaged by a tornado
Struggling: Several cars lie underneath a pile of debris following the tornado in the city of Dolores
Roballo said a good part of the population had lost their homes and at least two children were seriously hurt and had been transferred to the capital for treatment.
Fire department spokeswoman Mariela Vivone told Channel 12 television that two of the dead were killed by flying cars carried by the winds.
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