At least 14 people have died in the devastation wreaked by Superstorm Sandy - including two children killed instantly by a falling tree.
The children aged 11 and 13 were crushed by the toppled tree as they played outside their home in Westchester County, New York state at 6.45pm on Sunday.
Other fatalities include a woman who was electrocuted to death by falling wires on Manhattan’s 134th street and a 29-year-old man who was killed in a car crash in Queens.
A man was crushed by a falling tree in Ulster County, New York State, and one death has been reported in Connecticut and two people were killed when their pick-up was crushed by a falling tree in New Jersey.
Police in Toronto said a woman was killed by a falling sign as high winds closed in on Canada's largest city.
A 30-year-old man was killed when a tree fell on his house on 166th street in Flushing, New York City.
Meanwhile a 62-year-old man was killed as he let his dog out on his porch in Oley, Pennsylvania.
An eight-year-old boy died when he was crushed by a falling tree in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.
And a jogger was reportedly hospitalised after being crushed by a falling tree in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
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