Nearly 100 People Are Still Missing in North Carolina After Hurricane Helene
Search and rescue teams are still looking for the missing, officials said, with 95 deaths already attributed to the storm’s wrath in the state.
Nearly 100 Still Missing In North Carolina After Hurricane Helene
Exactly how many people have died across the southeast is impossible to say as the Hurricane Helene death toll continues to mount.
Nearly 100 still missing in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday confirmed 92 people from North Carolina are still missing nearly three weeks after Hurricane Helene—the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Katrina in 2005—swept the Southeast, killing hundreds and leaving an unknown number of people still unaccounted for across the region. Cooper’s update comes days after officials in North Carolina, the state hit hardest by Helene, said they were still working to total the number of missing person reports received by various agencies during the storm. The governor said “significant progress” has been made by first responders working on recovery efforts—Rutherford County officials, for example, said more than 1,100 people initially reported missing have been located and confirmed safe—but that work is continuing. In Buncombe County, home to the hard-hit city of Asheville, roughly 20 public school children remained unaccounted for Monday, Superintendent Rob Jackson told the Asheville Citizen-Times. More than 220 people…
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