It may turn into a hurricane… a storm "Melissa" It caused the death of 3 people in Haiti
Three people spent Tropical Storm Melissa in Haitias local authorities announced, and it may intensify into a hurricane over the weekend, according to The US National Hurricane Center.
The Civil Defense in Haiti explained on its website that "Two people were killed and another wounded, bringing the death toll to three in the last 48 hours"A man was killed on Wednesday when a tree fell.
The Saint-Martin River flooded due to heavy rains on a bridge in the northeast of the island, as well as homes in the northwest of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, according to the Civil Defense.
Catastrophic landslides
On Friday evening, local time, Storm Melissa was 360 kilometers southwest of Port-au-Prince in Haiti and 310 Kilometers from Kingston, Jamaica, according to the latest bulletin of the American Hurricane Center, which was issued at midnight GMT.
The center explained that the tropical storm may turn into a hurricane in the next 48 hours in Jamaica and in southwestern Haiti.
It added that the strength of Melissa is the thirteenth storm this season. "It hasn’t changed much in the last few hours" but "Catastrophic and deadly floods and landslides are expected in some areas south of the island of Hispaniola and Jamaica during the weekend.".
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