Earlier, the mayor and the director of the local hospital reported that the La Digue river in the seaside town of Petit-Goave burst its banks and carried away a number of people; the search for the remaining missing persons continues.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as a Category 5 hurricane. When Melissa hit this island, it achieved the record strength of the strongest landfall ever recorded by the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, which devastated the Keys archipelago off the coast of Florida with wind speeds of up to 300 km per hour. and a minimum atmospheric pressure of 892 millibars – reported the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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According to AP, Melissa caused the deaths of three people in Jamaica and one in Dominica, where the second person is missing. Jamaica's Secretary of State Abka Fitz-Henley said that among the victims was a small child on whom a tree fell.
Evacuation in Cuba
Melissa reached the coast of Cuba on Wednesday morning as a milder Category 3 hurricane, before weakening further to Category 2. The hurricane is expected to move toward the southeastern and central Bahamas later that day.
There are still about 735,000 in Cuba. evacuated people remain in temporary shelters, authorities said. Many houses collapsed or the wind ripped off their roofs, and mountain roads were blocked.
