World News | Hurricane Helene Kills 30 in 4 US States

Crawfordville (US), Sep 27 (AP) The death toll from Hurricane Helene has reached at least 30 across four US states.

According to an Associated Press tally Friday, the deaths occurred in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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Hurricane Helene left an enormous path of destruction across Florida and the entire southeastern US on Friday.

The storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) when it made landfall late Thursday in a sparsely populated region in Florida's rural Big Bend area, home to fishing villages and vacation hideaways where Florida's Panhandle and peninsula meet.

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But the damage extended hundreds of miles to the north, with flooding as far away as North Carolina, where a lake used in the movie “Dirty Dancing” overtopped a dam. Multiple hospitals in southern Georgia were without power, and one in Tennessee was closed. (AP)

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