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CHICAGO—Search efforts at an Amazon facility in Illinois where at least six people were killed in a tornado ...

Authorities on Sunday identified the six Amazon workers killed when a tornado collapsed a warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois.

CHICAGO (AP) — Search efforts at an Amazon facility in Illinois where at least six people were killed in a tornado were expected to take several days, but authorities said

Search efforts at an Amazon facility in downstate Edwardsville where at least six people were killed in a tornado were expected to take several days, but authorities said they did not expect to find additional survivors.

Search efforts at an Amazon facility in downstate Edwardsville where at least six people were killed in a tornado were expected to take several days, but authorities said they did not expect to find additional survivors.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said about 50 had died in his state alone, bringing the suspected death toll across ravaged states to 64. So far, 60 workers presumed dead at a candle factory were located.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said at least 80 had died in his state alone, bringing the confirmed death toll across ravaged states to 94. Yet there is hope that missing workers at a candle factory could still be alive.

Search efforts at an Amazon facility in downstate Edwardsville where at least six people were killed in a tornado were expected to take several days, but authorities said they did not expect to find additional survivors.

The company has not said how many people were in the building not far from St. Louis when the tornado hit at 8:35 p.m. Friday — part of a swarm of twisters across the Midwest and the South that leveled entire communities. Authorities said they didn’t have a full count of employees because it was during a shift change and there were several part-time employees.

Both sides of the warehouse used to prepare orders for delivery collapsed inward and the roof caved, according to Edwardsville Fire Chief James Whiteford.