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Hurricane Melissa: Jamaica begins assessing the damage from ‘storm of the century’ as it bears down on Cuba

Half a million people evacuated in Cuba Hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans without power Parts of western Jamaica 'underwater,' minister says

Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba's second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours after making landfall in neighbouring Jamaica as the strongest-ever storm on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.

Melissa roared ashore near Jamaica's southwestern town of New Hope, packing sustained winds of up to 295 kmh, according to the US National Hurricane Centre, well above the minimum 252 kmh wind speed of a Category 5 storm, the highest level on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.

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