Hurricane Melissa Makes Cuba Landfall After Lashing Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa thrashed Cuba, unleashing landslides and flooding in the nation’s second-largest city, as the storm tracked northeast toward the Bahamas.

Melissa hit the island around 3:10 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday near Santiago de Cuba, according to the US National Hurricane Center. That came less than a day after it became the strongest recorded storm to strike Jamaica, where it left hundreds of thousands without power and forced hospitals to evacuate.