Melissa leaves trail of destruction

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Cuba as a Category 3 storm,
hours after striking neighbouring Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane Ð
the strongest to hit the island in modern history

BAHAMAS
DOMINICAN
REP.
HAITI
Turks and
Caicos Islands
(UK)
Holguin
Kingston
Montego Bay
Nassau
Port-au-Prince
Santiago de Cuba
Santo
Domingo
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
CARIBBEAN SEA
100km
60 miles

Likely path of
Hurricane Melissa

09:00 Oct 29
18:00 Oct 29
06:00 Oct 30

Cuba: About 750,000 people
evacuated ahead of storm

Oct 28, Jamaica: Storm comes ashore with winds of up to 295km/h. Many
parts of western side of island are under water or have homes destroyed

Sources: BBC, Zoom Earth
All times GMT
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