US authorities announced death of six people in a wave of freezing rain and heavy snow that covered wide areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri in the US. 
According to (NBC News), Three people died in three crashes in Missouri thought to be weather-related, while in Kansas two people were killed in separate car crashes and truck driver was killed in a crash on an ice-covered highway Oklahoma. 
Over 20 vehicles were involved in a pileup near downtown Wichita, Kansas, Saturday. Two people suffered minor injuries, authorities said According to NBC. 
In Oklahoma, More than 10,000 people were without power Sunday morning. Over 2,800 flights are expected to be delayed today and over 200 were cancelled due to bad weather. 
The US National Weather Service said that widespread freezing rain was expected to continue over much of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri through Sunday, warning of expected ice storm and freezing rain in northeast New Mexico to central Illinois.

Source: QNA