Twenty people have been killed in a crash involving a stretch limousine taking people to a party in the US state of New York, police say.
All 18 people in the limousine died along with two pedestrians in the incident on Saturday afternoon in the town of Schoharie, police confirmed.
Witnesses described seeing the SUV-style limousine shoot across a junction and hit another car before ploughing into people in a shop car park.
The cause of the crash is unclear.
The victims have not yet been officially named but the New York Times reports that they include four sisters and at least two pairs of newlyweds. All those killed were adults, police say.
It is America’s deadliest transport crash since 2009, said the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Robert Sumwalt.
