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Video: 2 babies survive tornado that carried them away in bathtub

FILE - In this aerial photo, cars drive past destroyed homes in the aftermath of tornadoes that tore through the region, in Mayfield, Ky., Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Americans across the country are pitching in to help after last week’s tornadoes ravaged the South and Midwest, killing at least 90 people and displacing hundreds. Some are removing broken tree limbs from the ground. Many are preparing hot meals and shelters for those who have nowhere to turn. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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A grandmother says two babies have survived a Kentucky tornado that ripped the bathtub they were in out of the ground.

Clara Lutz told WFIE-TV she put 15-month-old Kaden and 3-month-old Dallas in the bathtub with a blanket, a pillow and a Bible.

Video from a Hopkins County Sheriff’s deputy shows rescue crews finding the bathtub in the woman’s yard.

“Can you get down here? We need help. We have someone underneath this debris in the bathtub,” the deputy says in the video.

Rescue crews are then seen pulling the crying children out of the bathtub.

Sheriff’s office authorities reunited Lutz with the babies. One child was reportedly taken to a local hospital after suffering a bump to his head.

At least 92 people have been confirmed dead across multiple states after more than 40 tornadoes pummeled a wide area on Dec. 10 and 11.

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