Aubrey (2) died last weekend in the tornado that swept through the US state of Mississippi.

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TORNADO DRAMA ABOUT EXPECTANT MOTHER

What a tragedy: a mother lies in the delivery room and gives birth to a son – and her two-year-old daughter dies almost simultaneously.

Eight-year-old Kaleb suffered severe head injuries from the tornado and is currently being treated in an intensive care unit.

Dominique Green from the US state of Mississippi was heavily pregnant. Knowing she would need to be hospitalized over the weekend, she took her daughter Aubrey, 2, to her parent's home in Silver City on Friday night.

The grandparents lived in a mobile home on the outskirts of town and looked after three other grandchildren over the weekend. Kaleb (8), Kelsey (7), and Kensley (1) the children of Green's half-sister Jessica Drain.

But on Saturday night, a severe hurricane raged in Mississippi. So, 26 people died in the natural disaster over the weekend. And in the heart of the tornado: the grandparents' caravan.

While Green gave birth to her son, the storm tore her parents' home apart, throwing grandparents and grandchildren through the air.

Any help came too late for Aubrey: the girl died on impact. While one-year-old Kensley and seven-year-old Kelsey were miraculously unharmed, eight-year-old Kaleb suffered a severe head injury. The paramedics arrived shortly and took him to the nearest hospital, where he was put on a ventilator in the intensive care unit.

"They told me my son was bleeding from the head, laying there having a seizure, his eyes were spinning," Drain, Kaleb's mother, told CNN when she learned of her son's injuries.

The concerned mother said she felt "pain, pain, and frustration at being unable to get to my son or niece in time."

Jessica Drain's aunt, JoAnn Winston, lived next door to the trailer. She told CNN that residents didn't know the storm was coming.

Meanwhile, Drain now hopes above all that her Kaleb will get well again: "I pray, I pray during the day, at night, every hour, every minute, every second," said the mother: "They will try to wake him up to see what his brain is doing. But unfortunately, they say they can't tell now because he still needs permanent ventilation."