At least five people were killed in road accidents as a severe winter storm swept through the US Midwest, media reported.
According to the National Weather Service reports, the state of Missouri is the worst hit with more than a foot of snow. The storm covered roads and made driving dangerous, Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
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Missouri troopers had responded to more than 3,000 calls for help, involving more than 700 crashes and 1,300 stranded vehicles till Saturday afternoon even as in central Missouri, about 12,000 households and businesses suffered power failure at one point, media reported.
At Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, most of the flights were either cancelled or delayed.
The snowstorm also hit Chicago, the third largest US city, which has put winter weather advisory.
Weather map of the National Weather Service shows the snowstorm moved into Kansas and Nebraska from the Rockies on Friday then went eastward into Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana.
It is expected that the storm will bring three to six inches of snow to Washington DC and some areas in northern and central parts of Maryland on Sunday before reaching into the mid-Atlantic region.
(With agency inputs)
