Okla. medical examiner identifies tornado victims
May 22, 2013, 11:31 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office says it has positively identified all 24 victims of Monday’s tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area.
The office announced Wednesday that 10 of those killed were children, including two infants.
Among the dead are 4-month-old Case Futrell and 7-month-old Sydnee Vargyas. Both babies died from head injuries.
The eight other children ranged in age from 4 years old to 9 years old. Of those, six were suffocated. The other two died from massive injuries. Seven of the children were pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore.
The medical examiner’s office says most of the adults died from multiple blunt-force injuries.
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