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7 killed by tornado, storms in Ark.

Rescue crews continue to search for survivors

By Andrew DeMillo and Nomaan Merchant
The Associated Press

VILONIA, Ark. — Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says rescuers have accounted for everyone who lives in the tornado-struck town of Vilonia and that the death toll in the rural community will likely remain at four.

Rescue crews continue, however, to search for survivors — or bodies — in nearby Garland County where the storm also hit hard late Monday.

Beebe toured Vilonia on Tuesday morning. He says he is impressed with the scale of the twister, which left a broad trail of destruction through the town of 3,800, some 25 miles north of Little Rock.

The storm system killed at least seven people, including three who drowned in floods in northwest Arkansas.