Four people were killed during the “historic” snowstorm in New York which ravaged the northeastern US state at the end of the week.
The police of the US metropolis area stated that the people that were killed reside in Long Island, specifying that three men died while trying to clear the snow, while another drowned by falling into a swimming pool.
A heavy snowstorm, accompanied by powerful gusts of wind, has hit the US Northeast, affecting more than 40 million Americans.
In the states of Virginia, New Jersey, and New York, governors had declared a state of emergency, while urging residents to stay at home.
In Massachusetts, some 117,000 homes were without power, according to Poweroutage.us, an ongoing project created to track, record, and aggregate power outages across the United States.
The storm also caused the cancellation of more than 3,500 flights and nearly 900 already for Sunday, arriving or departing from the country, according to the FlightAware air tracking site.
This is the second storm to hit the northeastern part of the US, after the one that swept through regions in early January from the state of Georgia to Quebec in neighboring Canada.
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