Texas interstate crash: at least five killed in pileup of up to 100 vehicles

Overnight freezing rain caused the pileup near Fort Worth which left a nearly mile-long wreckage and injured dozens of people

At least five people were killed and dozens injured on Thursday in a crash involving up to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate highway, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the US.

At the scene of the crash on Interstate 35 near Fort Worth, a tangle of semitrailers, cars and trucks had crashed into each other and had turned every which way, with some vehicles on top of others.