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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

‘Gut punch’ US north-eastern storm leaves at least six people dead

Cars are submerged in flood water on a street after a rainstorm on Monday in Elmsford, New York.
Cars are submerged in flood water on a street after a rainstorm on Monday in Elmsford, New York. Photograph: Kena Betancur/Getty Images

At least six people were killed and hundreds of thousands were left without power as a deadly winter storm swept across the north-eastern US on Monday, depositing flooding and freezing temperatures in its wake.

Two of the deaths were in Maine in separate cases involving fallen trees, authorities said. Other deaths were reported in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and New York.

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