Man Dies After Storm Knocks Down Tree onto Travel Trailer

A powerful thunderstorm swept through eastern Oklahoma early Sunday morning, toppling a tree onto a camper near the Illinois River and killing a man inside.

The National Weather Service of Tulsa first reported the incident on Sunday, indicating that a trailer may have been damaged in the storm.

The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office confirmed on Monday that a man and a woman were camping along the Illinois River in a travel trailer north of Combs Bridge when the storms blew a tree onto the trailer, trapping them. The man died as a result of the incident.

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