16 people have died after a freezing blizzard with high winds struck the Buffalo, New York, area in a storm that the state’s governor has described as “devastating.”
Sixteen people have died after a freezing blizzard with high winds struck the Buffalo, New York, area in a storm that the state’s governor has described as “devastating.”
The department 's storm-related death toll grew to 10 from six earlier Sunday. Police recovered a total of four bodies and have confirmed there are at least six others, the department said. The county's deaths, reported in Amherst and Cheektowaga, also included a person who was inside a structure, he said.
New York State Police Acting Superintendent Steven A. Nigrelli confirmed two incidents of looting in the Buffalo area. Officials have rescued “hundreds and hundreds” of people, some of them with snowplows, as they were the only vehicles able to reach people stranded in cars, Hochul said.
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