WASHINGTON.- At least four people have died in the last few hours in the states of Indiana, Arkansas and Georgia as a result of tornadoes and storms that have hit the United States and have caused multiple flight cancellations.
On Sunday, two people died after a tree fell on their house in the town of Carlisle, in Lonoke County, Arkansas, where several houses were damaged by storms.
In addition, the director of the Martin County (Indiana) Department of Emergency Management, Cameron Wolf, explained to the press that a tornado hit a house on Windom Road and killed one of the occupants and injured the other.
In Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana, the fire chief of the city of Bargersville, Eric Funkhouser, told NBC News that although there were no victims, some 75 houses suffered moderate or severe damage.
And in Georgia, in the city of Atlanta, a 55-year-old man died after being struck by a tree that fell in a storm.
In Ohio, severe tornado-spawning storms caused an estimated 400,000 homes and businesses to lose power from weather events that keep the eastern part of the country, from North Carolina to Pennsylvania, on alert.
With the storm system moving east, more than 90 million people are on severe weather watch Monday.
Cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington, DC are included in the highest risk area.
As a result of severe weather phenomena, hundreds of flights were canceled this Monday at some of the main airports on the east coast of the United States.
According to the FlightAware website, which monitors airspace, so far 1,202 flights to or from the United States have been canceled, while at least 3,329 have registered delays.
