Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean
The storm has been downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 2 storm but is gathering speed.
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Although downgraded from a category five to a category two storm, Melissa gathered speed as it swept through the Bahamas on Thursday and is expected to make landfall in Bermuda later.
The strongest storm to strike the Caribbean island in modern history, the hurricane sustained winds of 298km/h (185 mph) at its peak - stronger than Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, killing 1,392 people.
The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) reported sustained winds of 165km/h at 12:00 GMT on Thursday.
It warned of possible coastal flooding as the storm accelerated north-eastward.
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