Hurricane Melissa is expected to bring “catastrophic and life-threatening winds, flooding and storm surge to Jamaica” , US officials have warned as the Category 5 storm is set for landfall.

As the country braced for the hurricane, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness said, “I have been on my knees in prayer.”

Category 5 is the top of the hurricane scale, with sustained winds exceeding 157 mph (250 kph). New Feature

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Melissa would be the strongest hurricane to hit Jamaica directly since record-keeping began in 1851.

It has already been linked to seven deaths in the northern Caribbean.

Those include three people in Haiti, another in the Dominican Republic, and two in Jamaica over the weekend as they cut trees ahead of the storm. A t

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