Five killed in US windstorm

At least five people, including two children, have been killed in the ongoing windstorm plaguing the US East Coast.

A six-year-old boy died in Virginia on Friday after a tree fell on his house when he was sleeping, reports Xinhua news agency.

Later on Friday in Putnam county, New York, an 11-year-old boy died when a tree fell onto his home and trapped him.

The three other fatalities comprised a 77-year-old woman in Baltimore, a man in his 70s in Rhode Island and a 44-year-old man in Virginia, all struck by wind-felled trees.

The highest wind gust was 134 km per hour in both East Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Little Compton, Rhode Island.

 

Hurricane-force wind gusts will continue through coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island will continue into Saturday, according to the US National Weather Service.

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