‘Extremely dangerous’ tornado tears across US South as storms hit, at least six killed

A “large and extremely dangerous tornado” ripped across central Alabama on Thursday, part of a line of storms that have slammed the southeastern United States.

No deaths have been reported so far but the enormous, swirling weather system destroyed homes, toppled trees and trapped at least one resident in the rubble as it passed through the historic city of Selma, a centre for the 1960s civil rights movement.

  At least six people were killed on Thursday when a tornado and powerful storms ravaged the southern US state of Alabama, rescue officials confirmed.