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Roof torn off airport as Hurricane Melissa batters Jamaica
Video shows the damage done to Sangster International Airport in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa made landfall, with officials declaring the entire country a “disaster area”. The “storm of the century” hit the island on Tuesday evening (28 October) with winds of up to 185mph, as aid teams continue to assess the scale of the damage. The two main international airports have been closed until the storm passes. At least seven people have died across the Caribbean – three in Jamaica, three in Haiti and one in the Dominican Republic.
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independent.co.uk
Jamaica braces for Hurricane Melissa as category 4 storm threatens Caribbean
Residents in Jamaica prepared for Hurricane Melissa as it strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday (26 October). Melissa, the 13th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane…
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lemonde.fr
Powerful Hurricane Melissa strengthens as it heads for Jamaica
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the Category 4 was packing maximum winds of about 145 miles per hour – and would likely intensify into a top-level Category 5 storm…
