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Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana

Hurricane Oscar dumps heavy rain across Cuba amid power outage

storm clouds over a city
Havana, Cuba, on Monday. Photograph: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images

Hurricane Oscar has dumped heavy rain across the eastern end of Cuba, adding to a list of woes already besetting the Caribbean’s biggest island, which was hit over the weekend by a huge power cut.

The deluge caused landslides, and winds of 75mph tore the roofs off houses, making work even more difficult for the engineers trying to get Cuba’s electricity grid up and running again, after a weekend when the entire country of about 10 million people was plunged into darkness.

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