Kentucky floods: Death toll rises to 37, hundreds still missing

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Kentucky floods: Death toll rises to 37, hundreds still missing
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Four siblings who were reportedly swept by the deluge from their parents' grip are among the dead.

A Kentucky National Guard rescue helicopter is seen above a stranded home near the city of Jackson

"I hate to have to impose a curfew, but looting will absolutely not be tolerated," an official for Breathitt County wrote on Facebook on Sunday evening. One of those dead was Eva Nicole Slone, 50, who had ventured out in the storm in Knott County on Thursday to check on an elderly neighbour.

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