Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba early Wednesday with 193 kph winds after battering Jamaica as one of the Atlantic's strongest recorded hurricanes, threatening to worsen the island nation's severe economic crisis as officials evacuated over 700,000 people.

The devastating hurricane made landfall near Chivirico, in the province of Santiago de Cuba.

The storm was expected to generate a surge of up to 3.6 meters in the regi

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