LONE GROVE, Okla. – Emergency crews on Wednesday searched the wreckage of homes and businesses smashed by an unusual cluster of February twisters that ripped across Oklahoma, killing at least eight people.

One young woman was lifted into the air as a tornado pulled the roof off a house, but her mother and others held her down.

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