PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police are blaming freezing rain and light snow for four accidents that killed five people on Maine roads in less than 24 hours.

Police say two men were killed Saturday morning when their van crashed on an ice-covered road in Gardiner. Three others died in accidents in Bowdoin, Edinburg and Cornville.

The victims in the Gardiner crash were identified as 62-year-old Dennis Kay of Gardiner and 25-year-old Carlton Norwood of Pittston.

Police told Maine Today Media (http://bit.ly/v6yfXR ) that 21-year-old Joseph Faucher-Kuhlman of Cornville was killed about 11 p.m. Friday in Cornvillle.

Police said 45-year-old Andrew Klaiber of Topsham was killed Saturday afternoon in Bowdoin. Also Saturday, 63-year-old Aizhi Gao of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was killed when the car driven by her daughter crashed on Interstate 95 in Edinburg.