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More than 200 emergency officials descended on a small Oklahoma town Sunday to help conduct door-to-door searches -- and make sure the death toll from suspected tornadoes didn't grow.

The two men, ages 19 and 32, did not offer resistance when taken into custody, police say. Three people were killed and two wounded in the attacks.

At least 2 people were killed in central Oklahoma in an outbreak of tornadoes, while other funnel clouds were reported near Dallas and Fort Worth.

An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness.

Emergency crews on Wednesday searched for survivors after a cluster of unusual tornadoes tore across Oklahoma, killing at least eight people in a town in the southern part of the state.