- Dominique Green left her toddler with her parents in Silver City, Mississippi, on Friday, CNN said.
- Green was rushing to the hospital to have her second child, a son, the outlet reported.
A two-year-old was killed by a tornado in Mississippi while her mother was in hospital giving birth, CNN reported on Tuesday.
Dominique Green was due to give birth to her second child, a son, on Friday last week, the outlet said.
Before heading to the hospital, she dropped off her two-year-old daughter, Aubrey, at her parent's mobile home in Silver City, Mississippi.
Green's parents were also looking after three other grandchildren. But while she was away, a powerful tornado ripped through the town, obliterating the mobile home, CNN reported.
While the grandparents survived, Aubrey died from the impact. Her eight-year-old cousin, Kaleb, sustained a severe brain injury and is on a ventilator in an intensive care unit, his mother, Jessica Drain, told CNN.
Neighbors told CNN that after the tornado struck, they ran out to check on the family in the mobile home but "didn't see no house, no nothing."
"I looked around and I seen the baby laying a little bit far from her grandmother … the ambulance had her and were doing CPR on her," the neighbor, JoAnn Winston, told CNN.
The toddler was a happy child who loved to dance, and play on her rocking horse, Winston told CNN. The rocking horse was found in the debris, she added.
Her brother, who was not named, was born healthy, the outlet reported. Aubrey was among at least two dozen victims of the tornado that struck western Mississippi over the weekend, Reuters, The New York Times, and NBC News reported.
Stephanie Cox, a storm chaser who witnessed the tornado, told the BBC on Tuesday that she "never saw one that violent", adding that it sounded like "a train horn coming right at you."