Police on Saturday said that the workers while clearing rubble from a building damaged over a week ago when a tornado slammed into downtown Atlanta, found a dead body.

A senior official of Police said, “We may have the first tornado victim in the city of Atlanta, but we won’t know for sure until the medical examiner”.

The man is not yet identified. He was wearing a wedding band. The front of the damaged building had been a store while the rear had been rented out to a local church. Workers using a Bobcat to scoop up bricks & debris saw a hand sticking out of the rubble.

The tornado ripped through the city’s downtown on March 14, knocking out hundreds of windows, scattering debris across the city’s core & sending trees crashing into homes in nearby neighborhoods. At least 27 people were injured in the storm.