At least 26 people have been killed by tornadoes in the Midwest, but authorities fear the toll could rise.

In Arkansas, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi thousands of homes are destroyed or uninhabitable and still tens of thousands of people are without power.

According to the Washington Post, more than 60 reports of tornadoes have been recorded. The National Weather Service said the devastation is so widespread that it will take days to reach all affected areas.

Among the most affected areas is the state of Arkansas. The mayor of Little Rock said more than 2,100 homes and businesses were damaged in the city, but the full extent of the damage is still being assessed.

Tornadoes blew roofs and knocked down the walls of many buildings, overturned vehicles, uprooted trees and destroyed power lines in Little Rock and large areas east and northeast of the state capital, officials said.

In Wynne, hundreds of wooden houses, home to about 8,000 people, were completely destroyed by the fury of the wind while others were left without roofs. Many fallen trees have made the streets of the town impassable.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. Yesterday, Sanders asked President Joe Biden for a declaration of major disaster to meet the cost of tornado damage from federal resources.

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Devastation after the tornado in Wynne, Arkansas

In Belvidere, Illinois, part of the roof of the Apollo Theatre collapsed while about 260 people were attending a heavy metal concert. The toll is one dead and over 40 injured, two of which are in danger of life. In these images we see dozens of people busy digging through the rubble, looking for wounded people to help, after the fury of a storm hit the room.

Devastation also in Mississippi where the American president had gone with First Lady Jill Biden to meet survivors of the tornado that killed 26 people last week. Biden has assured that he will do everything in his power to help the victims. "We will rebuild everything and rebuild it better," he guaranteed, releasing federal funds for the state. But the president did not have time to start that a new tornado alert had already been triggered in the area threatening about 28 million people in seven states.