Snowzilla in US kills at least 24 people and grinds east coast to a halt

A travel ban for the New York area was lifted but Washington was still at a standstill after a blizzard paralysed the north-eastern United States, killing at least 24 people.

The storm, dubbed Snowzilla walloped several states over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, affecting an estimated 85m residents who were told to stay off the roads and hunker down indoors for their own safety

The storm was the second-biggest in New York history, with 26.8in (68cm of snow in Central Park by midnight on Saturday, just shy of the record 26.9in set in 2006, the National Weather Service said.