Tornados knocked cars off a highway and flattened homes in Texas late Saturday, raising the death toll to 25 over the last week as a string of storms wreaked havoc across much of the southern United States, AFP reports.
At least eight people were killed as tornados struck parts of the densely populated Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, leaving much of the region in darkness, local officials and media reported.
The Texas fatalities came after 17 people were killed in storm-related incidents since Thursday in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas.