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British tourists are locked down in their hotels as Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history, has made landfall in Jamaica.

As many as 8,000 British citizens are in the Caribbean country , with people ordered to stay inside to avoid the world’s strongest storm of the year so far.

On Tuesday, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said Melissa was “one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin” as it hit south-western Jamaica near New Hope with sustained winds of 185mph.

In a post on X, the centre warned that it is an “extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation” and told those in the area not to leave their shelter as the eye of the storm passes over.

The Jamaican government has ordered evacuations fro

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