Officials say 3 dead in Tennessee from overnight storms
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The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says severe storms overnight are to blame for three deaths in the eastern part of the state.
The agency says a 60-year-old man and 40-year-old woman were killed in Carter County when a tree fell on them while camping.
In Knox County, a second woman was killed by a falling tree during a storm. Agency spokesman Dean Flener says the woman was outside but no other information about the circumstances of her death were available. Officials did not immediately know the woman's age.
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Heavy rains earlier in the week caused flash flooding that destroyed homes and businesses in the central part of the state. The storms prompted a state of emergency declaration early Thursday morning. That declaration remained in effect Saturday.