02 May 2024,   15:09
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At least 23 people dead in storm-related incidents in US

The record for storm-related deaths in the southern and central United States this week continued to remain cold.


In Houston, a woman and a girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the car was left in a garage to generate heat, police said. A homeless man Also found dead On an overpass. And the man who was found dead on a median in Midtown Houston on Monday Fear of dying of extreme cold, Harris County Sheriff said.


According to local news reports, a grandmother and three children, who were without power, were killed early Tuesday in Sugar Land in a power house, Texas.


In southern Louisiana, a man died after slipping on ice and hitting his head, authorities said, and a 10-year-old boy in Tennessee died after falling into an icy pond. San Antonio officials said weather conditions contributed to the death of the 78-year-old man.


Slippery roads were responsible for 10 deaths in Kentucky and Texas, including a shack in Fort Worth involving more than 100 vehicles and killing six people. In Missouri, a 59-year-old man died when a snowpla collided with his pickup truck on Monday afternoon.

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