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A mum tragically lost her two-year-old daughter who was killed by a tornado as she was in hospital giving birth to her second child.
Dominique Green had left daughter Aubrey with her parents only for the two-year-old to become one of the 26 killed when a freak weather event swept through Mississippi.
Ms Green's mum was also looking after three other grandchildren, Kaleb, 8, Kelsey, 7, and Kensley, 1, while their mum Jessica Drain was at work.
The tornado ripped through the Silver City neighborhood tearing apart the mobile home where the children and grandparents were sheltering.
Aubrey was killed from the impact with Kaleb left with a severe brain injury.
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Aubrey Green, 2, was killed when the storm hit (Family Handout)Ms Drain told CNN: “They told me that my son was bleeding out of his head, he was laying there, he had a seizure his eyes rolled to the back of his head. ”
She continued explaining she feels “pain, hurt and frustration for not being able to get to my son or my niece in time.”
Ms Drain's aunt JoAnn Winston, who lives next door, says she never knew the tornado was coming.
Aunt JoAnn Winston (CNN)She said: “I heard something like a train … my older son was saying ‘get down on the floor get down on the floor!’”
She continued: “I didn’t see no house no nothing and I looked around and I seen the baby laying a little bit far from her grandmother … the ambulance had her and were doing CPR on her."
Residents embrace as they continue their recovery efforts in the aftermath of a tornado on March 28, 2023 in Silver City, Mississippi (Getty Images)Ms Winston described the killed baby as a happy child who loved to dance.
Ms Drain has started a GoFundMe campaign to help cover Kaleb’s expenses.
She wrote: “I’m praying, I’m praying for day, at night every hour every minute every second.
“They’re going to try to eventually wake him up to see what his brain does. They say they can’t tell right now because he’s sedated.”
The tornado devastated large swathes of Silver City (Getty Images)At least 21 people in Mississippi and a man in Alabama perished as menacing storms tore across the Deep South over the weekend.
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The toll was especially steep in Sharkey County, in western Mississippi, where 13 people died in a county of 3,700 residents.
County Coroner Angelia Eason said the losses hit the close-knit community hard.
“I had to identify family, that’s what it felt like,” Ms Eason said. “When something like this happens, we tend to come together even closer. We didn’t just lose 13 people. We lost 13 family members.”
The storm wiped out multiple generations: A woman and her elderly mother were killed, Eason said.
A weatherman broke down on air while reporting on the deadly tornado as it swept through Mississippi.
WTVA meteorologist Matt Laubhan appeared overwhelmed as major gales wreaked havoc in Amory, USA.
Reporting on the latest state of affairs, Laubhan broke down on TV and pleaded for help.
Nothing but rubble is all that remains of some homes (Getty Images)"We've got a new scan coming in here as we speak," he told viewers on WTVA.
Putting his elbow on the table, he let out a big sigh and bowed his head as updates continued to roll in.
"Oh man, like north side of Amory this is coming in. Oh man. Dear Jesus, please help them," he added.