Five killed in US windstorm

New York March 3 (IANS) 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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