Hurricane Beryl heads for Mexico after sweeping through eastern Caribbean
Al Jazeera
The storm has left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and is expected to hit Mexico’s coast early on Friday.
Hurricane Beryl swept through several Caribbean islands, leaving at least seven people dead in its wake before rumbling past the Cayman Islands early on Thursday.
The hurricane ripped off roofs in Jamaica and left more than 400,000 people without power, according to the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, citing a public service company.
It also reportedly damaged or destroyed 95 percent of homes on a pair of islands in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
What had been the earliest storm to develop into a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic weakened to a Category 3 by early Thursday, but remained a major hurricane.
Hurricane Beryl is now headed for Mexico’s popular Caribbean coast.