Hurricane melissa caused at least 67 deaths, up to $4 billion in insured losses in jamaica and tens of billions of dollars of overall damage throughout the caribbean, authorities in the storm. Hurricane melissa made landfall in cuba overnight after battering jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in atlantic basin history. The thirteenth named storm, fifth hurricane, fourth major hurricane, and third category 5 hurricane of the 2025 atlantic hurricane season. The death toll is growing as hurricane melissa crosses cuba and heads for the bahamas a day after making landfall in jamaica as one of the region’s strongest storms on record. Hurricane melissa is pummeling the caribbean island of cuba after it first caused devastation in haiti and jamaica, leading to the deaths of at least 32 people Twenty of the reported deaths on.
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