A gigantic tornado Monday ripped through a suburb of Oklahoma City in the US , destroying a school, sparking fires and flattening homes across whole neighbourhoods.
The twister struck about 4.00 p.m. (local time) Monday in Moore city, a suburb of about 55,000 people just south of Oklahoma City in the Oklahoma state.
Rescuers were searching for survivors as scores of primary school children were believed to be trapped under debris. The "mile-wide" storm came on the second day in a row that twisters hit the Midwestern state of Oklahoma, BBC reported.
On Sunday, at least two people died and 21 more were injured by the tornadoes that also razed a mobile home park.
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