The northern Caribbean has suffered widespread destruction in Hurricane Melissa’s aftermath, with casualties mounting across multiple islands.

Across Jamaica, the urgent sounds of heavy machinery, chainsaws and machetes dominate as workers and residents clear debris-choked roads to reach cut-off communities ravaged by one of the Atlantic’s most powerful recorded hurricanes.

Dazed survivors navigate through ruins, confront

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