A tornado has killed at least five people, including children, and injured dozens in a rural community near Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas, media reported on Sunday. 

Up to 80 people were trapped in a gas station that had collapsed due to the storm, a local sheriff told NBC News, as storm warnings continue across central U.S.

Towns in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas were hit by tornadoes on Saturday night, leaving trucks overturned, homes damaged and nearly 250,000 households without power, The New York Times reported.