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Up to TWENTY-FOUR children feared dead in rubble of flattened elementary school after giant TWO-MILE tornado rips through densely-populated suburb of Oklahoma City Two entire schools flattened in Moore, Oklahoma after monster tornado touched down just after 3pm local time Up to two dozen children are trapped under debris at one of the schools, Plaza Towers Elementary At least 37 people confirmed dead, authorities say, and at least another 120 injured in local hospitals Children told to hold on to the walls, while teachers shielding the students with their bodies Hundreds of homes wiped out and more than 8,000 people left without power Reports that the devastating tornado appeared larger than 1999 storm in the area that left 36 people dead More tornadoes now heading east towards Meaker, Ryan and Wilson in Oklahoma.Rescuers have uncovered the bodies of seven children believed to have drowned in a pool of water under the flattened Plaza Towers Elementary School and up to 30 more students are feared dead after a two mile-wide tornado touched down in a highly-populated suburb of Oklahoma City on Monday. Search teams on site had reported hearing cries for help from beneath the rubble at the elementary school that was obliterated in the worst storm the area of Moore has ever seen but these screams reportedly stopped at around 6:30 p.m. and shortly after it was reported that the search and rescue mission had become a recovery mission with scores of little ones feared buried under the rubble. The monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs obliterating entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph pulverizing a 30-square-mile stretch. Block after block lay in ruins. Homes were crushed into piles of broken wood. Cars and trucks were left crumpled on the roadside. Frantic parents rushed to the school, which was directly hit when the massive storm that has been given a preliminary rating of EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale barreled through the area of 170,000 residents shortly after 3pm Monday. The families were later taken to a nearby church to await news of their children. KWTV reports that at least 51 people in the area of Moore, Oklahoma, have now been confirmed dead by the Medical Examiner's Office including a three-month-old baby and a four-year-old child and three people were killed at a 7-Eleven. Local hospitals said that more than 120 injured residents had flooded into emergency rooms, including more than 70 children - but these numbers are expected to rise. Around 80 National Guard member were deployed and first responders with dogs were drafted in to help search the debris at Plaza Towers elementary before nightfall made the recovery effort more difficult. Devastating aerial images taken immediately afterwards show the school - as well as hundreds of homes and businesses - completely leveled with cars that have been thrown into the school grounds by the storm. Students who were inside the building described clinging to the walls of the hallway where many of them huddled during the storm as the twister battered the school. Others cowered in closets or bathrooms to protect themselves.