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Posted: 11:30 AM Jun 13, 2008
Kansas Tornado Victim Identified
Authorities have identified one victim from this week's deadly tornadoes in Kansas. Email Address: news@kake.com |
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Authorities have identified a victim from this week's deadly tornadoes as a 62-year-old rural Jackson County resident.
The Jackson County sheriff's office said George Askren was thrown from his mobile home Wednesday night by a twister near the tiny town of Soldier.
Askren lived along the Jackson-Nemaha county line between Soldier and Circleville and had a Circleville address.
Undersheriff Danny Howerton said the storm picked up Askren's mobile home and carried it about 225 yards. The twister dropped it so that it blocked a nearby rural road. Howerton said Askren's body was found 50 yards away from the home.
The Wednesday night storms also left a woman dead in Chapman, but she has not been identified.
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