NAPLES (Florida), Oct 24: Hurricane Wilma furiously cut across Florida on Monday, killing one person and leaving more than three million homes without power after churning huge waves that flooded Cuba’s capital Havana.
The storm killed at least 10 people in its violent passage through Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula over the weekend, where tens of thousands of American and European tourists were forced to flee resorts or hide in shelters.
In Florida, police said a man was killed after being pinned by a falling tree north of Miami.
In Cuba, four people, including three foreign tourists, were killed in a bus accident as they evacuated Friday before the storm slammed the island.
Wilma slashed across Florida as a Category Two storm in the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale before regaining strength just off the Atlantic coast, where it grew into a Category Three hurricane, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Centre (NHC).
A hurricane warning remained in effect for parts of the state’s east coast.—AFP
