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a tornado destroys this store of DIY to Sanford, North Carolina three days of severe thunderstorms in spring left 21 people dead in the South of the U.S.with the Carolinas last States to take a battered during their passage.

Three deaths have been reported in North Carolina. A tornado destroyed a church near Bonneau, South Carolina, while six people caught inside were unharmed.

The Metropolitan Washington DC area any has been put under Tornado Watch.

While tornadoes form in the South, much of the damage it is has been attributed to high winds.

The warning by the US National Weather Service for the Washington area also applies to the counties of Virginia and Maryland.

Trees and power lines were shot by storms that have ripped off roofs of houses and scattered road semi-trailers.

Amateur video shows a tornado as it is divided into three chimneys in Crittenden County, Arkansas

Alabama and Arkansas each reported seven dead, with two in Oklahoma, one in Mississippi and one in brownfield storm related to Texas.

Details were not immediately available of three deaths in North Carolina.

A mechanic in a store of tires in the capital of the State, Raleigh, said that he had taken refuge in his truck while their colleagues pressed in a room inside when the storm struck.

"It was a hell of a storm, Bryan Jackson told news agency Reuters.

"I began to see the roof to vibrate and then the roof separated and he was gone."

The region South of the city centre of Raleigh was strewn break telephone poles, the fallen son, broken glass and debris from roof.