Fresh tornadoes rip through Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio A series of powerful tornadoes have ripped through parts of the US, killing at least 20 people in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. The town of Marysville in Indiana was almost totally levelled, whilst footage from nearby Henryville, also badly damaged, showed a school bus thrown into the side of a building and homes reduced to wrecks, with the town's school also badly damaged - although the children escaped with cuts and bruises. Indiana officials confirmed 13 deaths from the tornadoes on Friday, with four in Jefferson County, four in Washington County, three in Scott County and two in Ripley County. Meanwhile in Kentucky, four deaths were confirmed in Menifee County in the eastern half of the state and a fifth in Kenton County, near Louisville. In south-western Ohio, a 54-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman died in Clermont County. Many schools, offices and roads throughout the Midwest and south-east USA were closed ahead of the storms, although meteorologists are predicting that 2012 could be a repeat of 2011, which saw 550 people killed by twisters - making it the deadliest in a century.