(Reuters) -Many people were injured after a tornado hit the towns of Winchester and Selma in Indiana on Thursday, but no deaths have been reported, police said.
“There have been many many significant injuries but I don’t know the number, I don’t know where they are. I don’t know what those injuries are,” Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter told reporters at a news conference.
NBC News earlier reported, citing the state police, that three deaths had occurred in a trailer home park in Winchester, which is in Randolph county.
Carter said the police had not heard of any deaths. “There’s a lot that we don’t know yet.” He confirmed that the police had initially reported the deaths.
He said that some buildings and homes had been completely destroyed in Winchester and that work will begin in the morning to find if people were still trapped in those buildings.
The Indiana Task Force 1 would assist in the search and rescue process and the police will come back with an update on Friday morning, Carter added.
Indiana State Police Public Information Officer John Perrine confirmed to Reuters that there were no deaths and that many were injured.
Perrine said they were still searching for people who have been affected by the storms, adding that many people have been hospitalized.
The National Weather Service had earlier said that it could not confirm that a tornado touched down in Winchester, but that it was “likely” judging by the damage and images taken by people on the ground.
The storms were part of a night of violent weather that stretched from northeast Texas to Ohio. Several small towns near Winchester also suffered heavy damage from suspected tornadoes.
(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Longmont, Colorado, Rishabh Jaiswal and Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru. Editing by Gerry Doyle and Jane Merriman)
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