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'Florence death toll at 15, including 2 from Carbon Monoxide'

A 78-year-old man was electrocuted in the rain while trying to connect extension cords for a generator in Lenoir County, North Carolina

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Flood waters from Hurricane Florence surround a house and flow along the street. Pic/AFP

Flood waters from Hurricane Florence surround a house and flow along the street. Pic/AFP

The death toll attributed to Florence stands at 15, including 10 in North Carolina and five in South Carolina. 42-year-old Jeffrey B Youngren of Elgin, South Carolina, died Sunday when a pickup truck hit a bridge piling in Kershaw County, said Coroner David West, who added that weather "played a big part" in the death.

23-year-old Michael Dalton Prince died Sunday after the truck he was riding in lost control on a flooded two-lane road in Georgetown County, South Carolina, said Coroner Kenny Johnson. The driver and another passenger escaped after the truck landed upside down in a flooded ditch. 63-year-old Mark Carter King and 61-year-old Debra Collins Rion of Loris, South Carolina, died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning from running a generator indoors, authorities said.

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