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@gwith99/Twitter(NEW YORK) -- Six people are dead and dozens more injured after a massive pileup Monday in Illinois caused by a sudden dust storm, officials
Six people are dead and dozens injured after a massive pileup Monday in Illinois caused by a sudden dust storm, officials said.
Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy interstate highway in a matter of minutes. The brown cloud's intensity caked even the insides of vehicles in dirt. As darkness enveloped them, some cars and trucks hurtling down the road put on their brakes; others didn't.
Six people are dead and dozens injured after a massive pileup Monday in Illinois caused by a sudden dust storm, officials said.
An interstate highway in Illinois reopened Tuesday after a windstorm that kicked up clouds of blinding dust from farm fields and led to crashes that killed at least six people and injured dozens more, police said.