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Category 5 Hurricane Irma smashes Caribbean islands and charts path for Florida
THE full scale of Hurricane Irmas destructive power has been laid bare with at least seven people dead including a toddler, and islands obliterated.
Victoria Craw, Debra Killalea and Emma Reynolds
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September 7, 20174:47pm HURRICANE Irma has killed at least seven people, reduced islands to rubble and left hundreds of thousands without power as it tears through the Caribbean.
A two-year-old child was killed on the two-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda as a family tried to escape a damaged home, said prime minister Gaston Browne.
Barbuda is practically uninhabitable, he said. Its just total devastation, Barbuda now is literally rubble. It is absolutely heart-wrenching.
The ferocious Category 5 hurricane damaged 95 per cent of the structures on the small island, with more than 800 people left homeless. Mr Browne said the damage was horrendous, with homes demolished and roads and telecommunications systems destroyed. He said the recovery effort would take months, if not years, and cost at least $100 million.
Irma also flattened 95 per cent of the idyllic French/Dutch resort island St Martin, with major damage to the airport, cars overturned and severe flooding in coastal villages.
St Martin is without drinking water or electricity and in dire need of emergency assistance, said local official Daniel Gibbs. Its an enormous catastrophe, he told Radio Caribbean International. I have a population to evacuate."...
THE full scale of Hurricane Irmas destructive power has been laid bare with at least seven people dead including a toddler, and islands obliterated.
Victoria Craw, Debra Killalea and Emma Reynolds
news.com.au
September 7, 20174:47pm HURRICANE Irma has killed at least seven people, reduced islands to rubble and left hundreds of thousands without power as it tears through the Caribbean.
A two-year-old child was killed on the two-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda as a family tried to escape a damaged home, said prime minister Gaston Browne.
Barbuda is practically uninhabitable, he said. Its just total devastation, Barbuda now is literally rubble. It is absolutely heart-wrenching.
The ferocious Category 5 hurricane damaged 95 per cent of the structures on the small island, with more than 800 people left homeless. Mr Browne said the damage was horrendous, with homes demolished and roads and telecommunications systems destroyed. He said the recovery effort would take months, if not years, and cost at least $100 million.
Irma also flattened 95 per cent of the idyllic French/Dutch resort island St Martin, with major damage to the airport, cars overturned and severe flooding in coastal villages.
St Martin is without drinking water or electricity and in dire need of emergency assistance, said local official Daniel Gibbs. Its an enormous catastrophe, he told Radio Caribbean International. I have a population to evacuate."...
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