SUPERSTORM SANDY HITS US, 13 DEAD

	SUPERSTORM SANDY HITS US, 13 DEAD At least 13 people were killed Monday in the United States and Canada as the megastorm Sandy slammed into the US East Coast, tearing down trees and power lines with hurricane-strength gusts. Local officials in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and North Carolina . At least five people were killed by the storm in New York state, including a 30-year-old man crushed by a fallen tree in the New York City borough of Queens, a spokesman for Governor Andrew Cuomo told US media. Two people were killed in Morris County, New Jersey when a tree fell on a vehicle, according to a local emergency management official. Another two people were killed in Pennsylvania, one from a falling tree and another when a house collapsed, an emergency management said, without providing further details. Elsewhere along the East Coast, a US sailor on board a replica of the HMS Bounty was recovered from the sea and later died at hospital, and the captain was missing and feared dead after the tall ship went down off the Carolinas. A woman in Maryland died after hydroplaning into a tree, officials said. And in West Virginia, a 48-year-old woman was killed when her car collided with a cement truck while driving through heavy snow caused by the storm, a local official said. The National Hurricane Center downgraded Sandy to a post-tropical cyclone as it crashed into the US coast near Atlantic City, New Jersey but said it still packed hurricane-force winds of 80 miles (130 kilometers <b>...</b>	From: nithin aram Views: 0 0 ratings
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