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Santiago de Cuba, Oct 29 (AP) Hurricane Melissa was grinding across Cuba on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummelling Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, the US National Hurricane Centre said.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Cuba had been evacuated to shelters. A hurricane warning was in effect for Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, Holguin and Las Tunas provinces as well as the southeastern and central Bahamas.

Melissa had top sustained winds of 105 mph (165 kph) and was moving north-northeast at 14 mph (22 kph) according to the National Hurricane Centre in Miami. The hurricane was centred 45 miles (70 kilometres) northwest of Guantánamo, Cuba, and 205 miles (335 kilometres) south of the central Bahamas.

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