At least 145 people have been hospitalized in the Oklahoma City area after a massive tornado hit the region Monday, hospital officials said, CNN reported.
Fifty-one people have died as a result of the storm that hit the Oklahoma City area Monday, Oklahoma's office of the chief medical examiner said.
The dead include seven children at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, said Oklahoma City Police Department spokesman Kevin Parton.
Amy Elliott of the state medical examiner's office said at least 20 children were killed by the storms. It was unclear how many of those were students at Plaza Towers.