Hurrican Beryl kills 6 people in the Caribbean.

Jul 3, 2024 - 13:01
Hurrican Beryl kills 6 people in the Caribbean.
Hurrican Beryl kills 6 people in the Caribbean.

BBC - Hurricane Beryl has ripped across the Caribbean with winds of 240km/h (150mph) tearing roofs from buildings, uprooting trees and devastating the islands in its path.

At least six people are known to have been killed across Grenada and St Vincent, and thousands left homeless after the category five storm made landfall on Tuesday.

It has since been downgraded to category four, but the US National Hurricane Center is warning of "life-threatening winds and storm surge" for Jamaica later on Wednesday and the Cayman Islands into Thursday.

The storm wrecked homes and businesses in the Hastings neighbourhood of Bridgetown, Barbados, on Monday.

There are “hardly any buildings left standing” on Union Island, one resident told the BBC.