USA: Violent storm in Texas kills 9 and injures 74

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Violent storm kills nine on Texas-Mexico border

POSTED: 8:18 a.m. EDT, April 25, 2007

Story Highlights• Six killed, dozens injured near Eagle Pass, Texas

• Three killed across the border in Piedras Negras, Mexico

• Storm dumps more than a foot of snow in Colorado foothills

• School, 20 homes, sewage plant trashed in Eagle Pass

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- A massive spring storm plowed toward the Midwest

early Wednesday after spawning a tornado that killed nine people along

the Texas-Mexico border. Six of the victims were killed a few miles

south of Eagle Pass, about 150 miles southwest of San Antonio. Four of

the dead were apparently in one mobile home when the tornado hit

Tuesday night, Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster said. The tornado destroyed

an elementary school, more than 20 nearby homes and the Eagle Pass

municipal sewer treatment plant. Nobody was in the school when the

tornado hit, Foster said. " I'm out here on-site and I'm looking at what

used to be an elementary school, " Foster said by cell phone early

Wednesday morning. " Six mobile homes are still missing. " A local

hospital received 74 injured patients, including four in critical

condition.