肯塔基州列克星敦。-肯塔基州12月毁灭性龙卷风的死亡人数已经上升,州长安迪·贝希尔周一宣布了一名妇女和她的婴儿的死亡。
贝希尔在新闻发布会上说,这位33岁的梅菲尔德妇女已经在医院住了很长一段时间,并因伤势过重死亡。州长说,她未出生的孩子在12月出生,6天后死亡。
贝希尔说:“对他们的家人来说,我知道你们已经为那个婴儿感到悲伤,现在又为她的母亲感到悲伤。”“我们和你一起悲伤。”
梅菲尔德是格雷夫斯县的所在地,大约24人在风暴中丧生,其中包括几名倒塌的蜡烛厂工人。
贝希尔说,该州修正后的风暴死亡人数现在是80人。风暴总共造成五个州90多人死亡。国家气象局在12月10日和11日记录了至少41次龙卷风,其中16次在田纳西州,8次在肯塔基州。
Gov: Kentucky’s death toll from December tornadoes now at 80
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kentucky’s death toll from devastating tornadoes in December has risen as Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday announced the deaths of a woman and her infant.
Beshear said during a news briefing that the 33-year-old Mayfield woman had been in the hospital for a significant period and died of her injuries. Her unborn child was delivered and died after six days in December, the governor said.
“To their family, I know you’ve already grieved for that infant and now are grieving for her mother," Beshear said. “We grieve with you.”
Mayfield is the county seat of Graves County, where about two dozen people died in the storms, including several at a collapsed candle factory.
Beshear said the state’s revised death toll from the storms is now 80. All together, the storms killed more than 90 people in five states. The National Weather Service recorded at least 41 tornadoes on Dec. 10 and 11, including 16 in Tennessee and eight in Kentucky.