Death of tornadoes we top 340

lot of Tuscaloosa has been ravaged by a mile-wide Wednesday tornado death toll by tornadoes that hit southern us this week has increased by more than 340, in one of the worst outbreaks twister in the history of the country.

Soldiers and emergency crews are still looking for survivors and bodies.

More than 200 tornadoes were reported across six States in the South of the United States, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

During a visit to Alabama, which has weathered, President Barack Obama said he had never "view of devastation like that."

Mr. Obama speaking to Tuscaloosa, Alabama city hit by a tornado of all of the mile (1.6 km) on Wednesday.

"We will do all that we can to help these communities rebuild," said Obama. "We will make sure that you are not forgotten."

More than 250 people died in Alabama alone - mainly on Wednesday.

A million homes and businesses of the State are still without power.

Global balance through the South makes the outbreak of the second-deadliest tornado in the history of the United States, the Associated Press news agency reports.

BBC South updated weather we

He says that the largest number of dead was never in March 1925, when 747 people were killed in the storms that raged through the Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

Governor of the Alabama Robert Bentley said he expected that more bodies are found in the next few days.

The Mayor of Birmingham, the largest city in the State, told reporters Friday: "whole areas of housing, just completely disappeared." Churches, missing. Companies, gone... [it] seems like a bomb was dropped. ?

Tornadoes and storms have also caused deaths in Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Georgia and Virginia.

A State of emergency remains in place in these States.