Hurricane Helene has left at least 162 dead

At least 162 people are dead across six states in Helene’s wake – a number that continues to tick upward as emergency crews search for unaccounted-for residents and survey devastation wrought by the storm, Report informs via CNN.

Helene is the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the US mainland in the past 50 years, following Hurricane Katrina, which killed at least 1,833 people in 2005.

Among the dead are several first responders and a Georgia mother and her twin 1-year-old boys.