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The mother of a 2-year-old daughter who was killed in a Mississippi tornado last week was at a hospital giving birth to her second child, CNN reports.
Dominique Green left 2-year-old Aubrey with her mother while she was on the way to a local hospital to give birth to her son.
Her mother was watching three other grandchildren — and two young children of her own — when the tornado tore the mobile home apart, the report said.
Aubrey was among 21 people killed over the weekend amid an outbreak of storms and tornados. Kaleb, an 8-year-old boy who was also at the mobile home, suffered a severe brain injury and as of Tuesday was on a ventilator at an intensive care unit.
JoAnn Winston, a neighbor in the mobile home park, said residents didn’t know what hit them.
“I heard something like a train … my older son was saying ‘Get down on the floor! get down on the floor!’” Winston said.
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