Hurricane Melissa has lashed Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 195km/h. Photo: AP PHOTO

Hurricane Melissa has slammed into eastern Cuba, hours after causing devastation in neighbouring Jamaica as the strongest cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean island nation.

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Melissa was last about 95km west-southwest of Guantanamo, Cuba, with maximum sustained winds of 195km/h, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest update.

It had subsided to a category three hurricane since it roared ashore near Jamaica's southwestern town of New Hope, packing sustained winds of up to 2

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