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Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister
Source: BBC
Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister
28 January 2019
Three people are dead and more than 170 injured after a rare tornado ripped through Cuba's capital, Havana.
The governing communist party described the powerful twister, the first to hit the city in decades, as an "extraordinary" event.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel met emergency crews on the streets before dawn on Monday, and tweeted that the damage was "severe".
Pictures posted on Twitter showed homes destroyed and trucks overturned.
The tornado hit a number of poorer districts late on Sunday night with wind speeds of up to 100km/hr (60 mph), uprooting trees and cutting electrical power.
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28 January 2019
Three people are dead and more than 170 injured after a rare tornado ripped through Cuba's capital, Havana.
The governing communist party described the powerful twister, the first to hit the city in decades, as an "extraordinary" event.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel met emergency crews on the streets before dawn on Monday, and tweeted that the damage was "severe".
Pictures posted on Twitter showed homes destroyed and trucks overturned.
The tornado hit a number of poorer districts late on Sunday night with wind speeds of up to 100km/hr (60 mph), uprooting trees and cutting electrical power.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47025852
Havana's Luyano neighbourhood fell in the tornado's path
Cars, power lines and buildings were all hit by the twister's impact
