CAMILLA, Ga., Feb. 14 —   Rescue crews began looking for more victims at daybreak Monday, after several tornadoes tore through southwest Georgia overnight, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 100. The mayor of one town told MSNBC of unconfirmed reports that 20 people were killed in his area alone.

THE POLICE chief of Camilla, a southwest Georgia town of 5,000, reported an unconfirmed death toll of some 20 people, Camilla Mayor Joe Powell told MSNBC Powell added that many people are missing, among them city employees.
 
Residents had been relying on cable TV reports for tornado warnings, Powell said, but power was cut before the tornado hit, so many had no advance notice. NBC affiliate WALB-TV in Albany reported six deaths in Mitchell County. Six more were confirmed dead in Grady County, and one in Colquitt County. Camilla is in Mitchell County.

‘BULLDOZER’ EFFECT - Power was still out in parts of Camilla, located 25 miles south of Albany and north of the state border with Florida — several hours after the storm hit around midnight local time. Witnesses described a 5-mile swath of destruction through a  neighborhood outside the town.

 “It’s like somebody took a bulldozer and leveled it,” said a volunteer fireman, adding that between 50 and 60 homes were destroyed, most of them mobile homes. “All you heard was a roar, woo-woo-woo,” said Johnny Jones, whose mobile home south of Camilla was lifted up and thrown on its side.