In Video and Pictures: 'I can't explain my anger and sadness': Father of girl, 9, who died when school was hit by tornado describes his horror at finding the building reduced to rubble

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In Video and Pictures: 'I can't explain my anger and sadness': Father of girl, 9, who died when school was hit by tornado describes his horror at finding the building reduced to rubble

• Janae Hornsby, 9, 'always had a smile on her face'
  
• Entire neighborhoods flattened in Moore, Oklahoma after 190mph winds pulverized a 30-square-mile stretch
  
• Officials initially said there were as many as 91 people dead - with 51 confirmed - but on Tuesday morning they corrected this to say there were 24 confirmed dead; some people had been counted twice amid the chaos
• Seven children died at Plaza Towers Elementary School
  
• Hundreds of homes wiped out and more than 50,000 people left without power
  
• The devastating tornado was larger than 1999 storm in the area that left 36 people dead

By Lydia Warren, Helen Pow and Jill Reilly

PUBLISHED: 20:17 GMT, 20 May 2013 | UPDATED: 23:36 GMT, 22 May 2013

The father of a nine-year-old girl who perished when Plaza Elementary School suffered a direct hit from Monday's tornado has described his horror at arriving at her school to find nothing but a pile of rubble.

Joshua Hornsby was driving to pick up his daughter Janae when the massive storm hit the city of Moore, Oklahoma but he became stuck in traffic and was unable to reach her in time.

'When I got to the school it was complete gone,' he told ABC. 'It was just rubble. There's no way to explain the anger or sadness I had at that time.'

Janae was one of seven children who died of asphyxiation at the school after the tornado flattened the building. Her grandfather said authorities told the family at around 9 a.m. on Tuesday that the little girl's body was at the medical examiner's office.

Her father remembered her as a fun spirited child 'who always had a smile on her face' and shared photographs of her grinning angelically.

She perished alongside six other children, including eight-year-old Kyle Davis. Other families have released photographs of more children who are missing, including Sydney Angle.

The names of the victims began to emerge as hope of finding anyone alive began to wane. Nearly 24 hours after the two mile-wide tornado ravaged Moore, officials started to search flattened homes and piles of rubble with cadaver dogs. No survivors were found on Tuesday.

The storm, which barreled through the Oklahoma City suburb for 17 miles on Monday, injured 237 people and killed at least 24, including nine children and four people in Oklahoma City. The weather service confirmed on Tuesday that the powerful storm was an EF5 - the maximum on the scale.

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