Hurricane Irma Heads For Florida Via Cuba, After Pummelling Turks and Caicos Islands

Hurricane Irma is moving closer to Florida where it could slam into Miami this weekend after hurtling through the Caribbean, leaving catastrophic damage in its wake.The storm which has already battered Cuba and the Turks and Caicos Islands, is expected to move westward toward the Bahamas. And though Irma was downgraded to a strong category 4 storm on Friday, yet winds still reached a sustained maximum of 155 mph,the US National Hurricane Center said. At its peak, winds reached sustained maximums of 180mph.At least 15 people were killed as Irma pummeled small northeastern Caribbean islands such as Barbuda. In Puerto Rico, hundreds of thousands people were left without power.Photo Credit: Getty

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