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Florence death toll stands at 4, including mother and baby

Posted 9/15/18

Florence death toll stands at 4, including mother and baby by By The Associated Press , Associated Press - 15 September 2018 12:33-04:00 The death toll attributed to Florence stands at four Saturday, …

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Florence death toll stands at 4, including mother and baby

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Florence death toll stands at 4, including mother and baby

by By The Associated Press , Associated Press - 15 September 2018 12:33-04:00
The death toll attributed to Florence stands at four Saturday, all in North Carolina. Authorities say some other fatalities were unrelated.

— A mother and her 8-month-old were killed when a massive tree crushed their brick house Friday, according to a tweet from Wilmington police.

— A 78-year-old man was electrocuted in the rain while trying to connect extension cords for a generator, Lenoir County spokesman Bryan Hanks says.

— Another man's body was found after he went outside to check on his hunting dogs and was blown down, Hanks says.

Authorities say the storm did not cause some other deaths: a woman who died of undetermined causes in a shelter, a woman who suffered a heart attack at home during the storm, and a couple whose apparent murder-suicide was investigated during hurricane conditions in Otway.

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A fallen tree is shown after it crashed through the home where a woman and her baby were killed in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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Rescue workers, police and fire department members wait to remove the bodies of a mother and child who were killed by a falling tree as Hurricane Florence made landfall in Wilmington, N.C. Friday Sept. 14, 2018. The father was transported to the hospital with serious injuries. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP)
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Police talk outside the home where a woman and her baby were killed by a fallen tree in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Police talk outside the home where a woman and her baby were killed by a fallen tree in Wilmington, N.C., after Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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