PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Officials say 16 people died in Florida because of Hurricane Michael, doubling the numbers of deaths in the state The Associated Press had previously attributed to last week's storm.
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Florida officials announced the state's updated death toll Tuesday. State officials did not provide details of how the victims' deaths were storm-related and the AP was not immediately able to confirm those details.
Officials say 12 of the deaths occurred in Bay County, a seaside county which took a direct hit from the storm.
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The AP's tally also includes 10 deaths in Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina.
